There is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li
Po: "Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao." He moved through
this world with an unearthly freedom from attachment, and at the
same time belonged profoundly to the earth and its process of
change. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in
the everyday experience we all share. He wrote 1200 years ago, half
a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed.
Legendary friends in eighth-century T'ang China, Li Po and Tu Fu
are traditionally celebrated as the two greatest poets in the
Chinese canon. David Hinton's translation of Li Po's poems is no
less an achievement than his critically acclaimed The Selected
Poems of Tu Fu, also published by New Directions. By reflecting the
ambiguity and density of the original, Hinton continues to create
compelling English poems that alter our conception of Chinese
poetry.
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