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The Poetry of Li He (Hardcover)
Robert Ashmore; Edited by Sarah M. Allen, Christopher Nugent, Xiaofei Tian
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Li He (790-816) holds a place in China's poetic history somewhat
outside the mainstream, but in every generation of readers there
have been those who have found his intense and often cryptic
lyrical visions irresistibly fascinating and utterly without
parallel. He is renowned particularly for his lyrical reimaginings
of song traditions from the ancient past, and his premature death,
along with the otherworldly quality of many of his works, led later
readers to view him as the emblematic cursed poet, whose
fascination with ancient history, with ghosts, and with celestial
and demonic beings seemed to presage the brevity of his own
existence. Li He's style and diction are often idiosyncratic and
even hermetic, and his work presents daunting challenges to readers
wishing to follow the flights of his imagination, or simply to
construe the basic sense of his language. This volume presents
close translations of all of Li He's poetry, in facing-page format
with the original texts, with explanatory notes on literary and
historical references and difficult points of interpretation, along
with endnotes briefly discussing textual variants and other
technical matters. Taken together, these features will be a welcome
aid to readers wishing to explore Li He's poetic worlds first-hand.
For centuries, readers of Tao Qian have felt directly addressed by
his poetic voice. This theme in the reception of Tao Qian,
moreover, developed alongside an assumption that Tao was
fundamentally misunderstood during his own age. This book revisits
Tao's approach to his readers by attempting to situate it within
the particular poetics of address that characterized the Six
Dynasties classicist tradition. How would Tao Qian have anticipated
that his readers would understand him? No definitive answer is
knowable, but this direction of inquiry suggests closer examination
of the cultures of reading and understanding of his period. From
this inquiry, two interrelated groups of problems emerge as
particularly pressing both for Tao Qian and for his contemporaries:
first, problems relating to understanding authoritative texts,
centered on the relation between meanings and the outward "traces"
of those meanings' expression; second, problems relating to
understanding human character, centered on the unworldly scholar
the emblematic figure for the set of values often termed
"eremitic."
This book takes the reader along on the incredible hang gliding
experiences of three friends in the Owens Valley. It also recounts
historical events that took place throughout the area and provides
tales of their own exploration of many locations---providing a
comprehensive look at this fascinating valley, from above and
below. Dedicated to the memory of Don Partridge.
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