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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
168137224X
ISBN-13
9781681372242
Edition
Main
Publisher
New York Review Books
Imprint
New York Review Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 31st, 2018
Print length
160 Pages
Weight
148 grams
Dimensions
11.60 x 17.40 x 1.00 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry
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A one-of-a-kind collection of work by little-known Late Tang poetic master Li Shangyin.
Li Shangyin is one of the foremost poets of the late Tang, but until now he has rarely been translated into English, perhaps because the esotericism and sensuality of his work set him apart from the austere masters of the Chinese literary canon. Li favored allusiveness over directness, and his poems unfurl through mysterious images before coalescing into an emotional whole. Combining hedonistic aestheticism with stark fatalism, Lis poetry is an intoxicating mixture of pleasure and grief, desire and loss, everywhere imbued with a singular nostalgia for the present moment.
This pioneering, bilingual edition presents Chloe Garcia Robertss translations of a wide selection of Lis verse in the company of other versions by the prominent sinologist A. C. Graham and the scholar-poet Lucas Klein.
This bilingual edition includes the original Chinese versions of each poem.
Li Shangyin is one of the foremost poets of the late Tang, but until now he has rarely been translated into English, perhaps because the esotericism and sensuality of his work set him apart from the austere masters of the Chinese literary canon. Li favored allusiveness over directness, and his poems unfurl through mysterious images before coalescing into an emotional whole. Combining hedonistic aestheticism with stark fatalism, Lis poetry is an intoxicating mixture of pleasure and grief, desire and loss, everywhere imbued with a singular nostalgia for the present moment.
This pioneering, bilingual edition presents Chloe Garcia Robertss translations of a wide selection of Lis verse in the company of other versions by the prominent sinologist A. C. Graham and the scholar-poet Lucas Klein.
This bilingual edition includes the original Chinese versions of each poem.
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