The T'ang dynasty was the great age of Chinese poetry, and Po Chü-i (772–846) was one of that era's most prolific major poets. His appealing style, marked by deliberate simplicity, won him wide popularity among the Chinese public at large and made him a favorite with readers in Korea and Japan as well. From Po Chü-i's well-preserved corpus―personally compiled and arranged by the poet himself in an edition of seventy-five chapters―the esteemed translator Burton Watson has chosen 128 poems and one short prose piece that exemplify the earthy grace and deceptive simplicity of this master poet. For Po Chü-i, writing poetry was a way to expose the ills of society and an autobiographical medium to record daily activities, as well as a source of deep personal delight and satisfaction―constituting, along with wine and song, one of the chief joys of existence. Whether exposing the gluttony of arrogant palace attendants during a famine; describing the delights of drunkenly chanting new poems under the autumn moon; depicting the peaceful equanimity that comes with old age; or marveling at cool Zen repose during a heat wave... these masterfully translated poems shine with a precisely crafted artlessness that conveys the subtle delights of Chinese poetry.

Po Chü-i: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Po-Chu-i

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

Down through history the Chinese have looked upon poetry as a natural and solacing part of life. Of all the art they felt it to be the most personal. It is solely dependent upon man's memory, and is carried about in his heart. The poems in this volume are by many different poets - some of whom have long since lost their identity - and include the best efforts of a variety of translators. Even after as many s 1700 years these verses remain vital, human and appealing, full of richness, warmth, and color. Many are sensuous; others tell of bitterness, loneliness, suffering, and grief. All are justified in taking their place beside the love poetry of today.

Chinese Love Poems

Tzu Yeh

Prince Li Yo

Chien T'Ang

Chu Tun-Ru

Niu Hsi-Chi

Jan Ju Yu

Wu-Ti

Ts'ui Ying Ying

Shen Yo

Hanover House

Po Chu-I lived from 772-846 AD, rising from humble beginnings to high government office. Although some of his most famous poems are those of social and moral protest, many of his finest are private and meditative; he was a recluse at heart and spent many years in relative solitude. He is regarded by many Chinese as their greatest poet, but his poems have been known in the West only through scattered versions by Arthur Waley and others.

The Selected Poems of Po Chü-I

Poetry

Anvil Press Poetry

The earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, Mountain Home is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary. China's tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" poetry stretches across millennia. This is a plain-spoken poetry of immediate day-to-day experience, and yet seems most akin to China's grand landscape paintings. Although its wisdom is ancient, rooted in Taoist and Zen thought, the work feels utterly contemporary, especially as rendered here in Hinton's rich and accessible translations. Mountain Home collects poems from 5th- through 13th-century China and includes the poets Li Po, Po Chu-i and Tu Fu. The "rivers-and-mountains" tradition covers a remarkable range of topics: comic domestic scenes, social protest, travel, sage recluses, and mountain landscapes shaped into forms of enlightenment. And within this range, the poems articulate the experience of living as an organic part of the natural world and its processes. In an age of global ecological disruption and mass extinction, this tradition grows more urgently important every day. Mountain Home offers poems that will charm and inform not just readers of poetry, but also the large community of readers who are interested in environmental awareness.

Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China. Ch'ien, T'Ao ... [Et Al.]

WANG, WEI

T'Ao Ch'ien

Meng Hao-Jan

Tu Fu

Li, Po

Hsieh Ling-Yün

Wei Ying-Wu

Chia Tao

A fresh bilingual collection of more than 100 poems from China selected and translated for their Zen spirit. Drawn from twenty centuries of writing, the book includes poems by such favorits as Han Shan, Shih Te, Wang Wei, Tu Fu, Pai Chu I; Chaio Jan, Yin Luan, Su Shih, Chin Kung, Chun An, and many others. Here are poems as songs from the heart of being. Now in its second printing.

Chinese Zen Poems: What Hold Has This Mountian

Larry Smith

Han-Shan

Mei Hui Huang

Bottom Dog Pr

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