The selected poems of Tu Fu /

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Author / Creator:	Du, Fu, 712-770, author.
Uniform title:	Poems. Selections. English
Imprint:	New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020.
Description:	269 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Du, Fu, -- 712-770 -- Translations into English. Du, Fu, -- 712-770. Chinese poetry -- Tang dynasty, 618-907. Poetry. Translations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12284527

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Other authors / contributors:	Hinton, David, 1954- translator.
ISBN:	9780811228381 081122838X 9780811224062
Notes:	Translated from the Chinese.
Summary:	"Tu Fu (712-770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton's original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in America. Most of Tu Fu's best poems were written in the last decade of his life, as an impoverished refugee fleeing the devastation of civil war. In the midst of these challenges, his always personal poems manage to combine a remarkable range of possibilities: elegant simplicity and great complexity, everyday life and grand historical drama, private philosophical depth and social engagement in a world consumed by war"--

Leaving the CityIt's bone-bitter cold, and late, and fallingfrost traces my gaze all bottomless skies.Smoke trails out over distant salt mines.Snow-covered peaks slant shadows east.Armies haunt my homeland still, and wardrums throb in this far-off place. A guestovernight here in this river city, I returnagain to shrieking crows, my old friends. Excerpted from The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton by Tu Fu All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

The selected poems of Tu Fu /

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