Tuesday, May 06, 2008

News at Eleven: Li Ho, strangest of Chinese poets,

comes out with such baffling lines as "The blue raccoon weeps blood and the cold fox dies." And yet, the same Li Ho could write, "If heaven too had passions even heaven would grow old," a line in which all the pathos of human experience is obliquely conveyed.

Until his death in 1991, [A.C.] Graham taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and was steeped in Chinese philosophy as well as poetry.

from The New York Sun: The Lovely Bones: Poems of the Late T'ang

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