Tuesday, October 14, 2008

News at Eleven: With David Hinton as our guide,

Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology comes across as something akin to a magical artifact, full of potential energies and untapped motes of poetic inspiration. Anyone, especially poets looking outside the western canon for transformative verse and fresh inspiration, should include this book in their library.

from The Brooklyn Rail: Anthology: The Task of the Translator-Poet

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