"The" classic Chinese poetry anthology in a handsome
English-Chinese format.
Poetry is China's greatest art, and for the past eight centuries
"Poems of the Masters" has been that country's most studied and
memorized collection of verse. For the first time ever in English,
here is the complete text, with an introduction and extensive notes
by renowned translator, Red Pine. Over one hundred poets are
represented in this bilingual edition, including many of China's
celebrated poets: Li Pai, Wang Wei, Tu Fu, Wang Po, and Ou-yang
Hsiu.
"Poems of the Masters" was compiled during the Sung dynasty
(960-1278), a time when poetry became the defining measure of human
relationships and understanding.
As Red Pine writes in his introduction: "Nothing was significant
without a poem, no social or ritual occasion, no political or
personal event was considered complete without a few well-chosen
words that summarized the complexities of the Chinese vision of
reality and linked that vision with the beat of their hearts . . .
Poetry's] greatest flowering was in the T'ang and Sung, when
suddenly it was everywhere: in the palace, in the street, in every
household, every inn, every monastery, in every village
square."
"Chiupu River Song" by Li Pai
My white hair extends three miles
the sorrow of parting made it this long
who would guess to look in a mirror
where autumn frost comes from
"This valuable text will help us appreciate the richness of
poetic imagination and experience."--"Book Magazine, " five-star
review
" "Poems of the Masters"] includes the Chinese originals, along
with commentaries on imagery, various social conventions,
historical background--all absolutely essential to a full
appreciation of the texts... the best way to approach them is to
pick one out and let it drop like a pebble into the well of your
mind and hear how it resonates."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer"
"The poems in this remarkable anthology speak to us--across an
immense distance of time and space--of loneliness, beauty, the
consequences of political action, the stillness of autumn. Red
Pine's wonderful translations and the clarity of his accompanying
notes make these poems accessible and intimate to all of us...Red
Pine and the good people at Copper Canyon deserve a place in the
Taoist paradise for bringing us this beautiful book."--"Booksense
Recommends"
Red Pine is one of the world's most respected translators of
Chinese literature, bringing into English several of China's
central religious and literary texts, including "Lao-tzu's
Taoteching "(isbn 9781556592904) and "The Collected Songs of Cold
Mountain" (isbn 9781556591402).
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