The Collected Poems Of Li He (häftad, eng)

The definitive collection of works by one of the Tang Dynasty''s most eccentric (and badly-behaved) poets, now back in print for the first time in decades.

Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang dynasty. He began writing at the age of seven and died at twenty-six from alcoholism or, according to a later commentator, “sexual dissipation,” or bothAn obscure and unsuccessful relative of the imperial family, he would set out at dawn on horseback, pause, write a poem, and toss the paper away. A servant boy followed him to collect these scraps in a tapestry bag.
 
Long considered far too extravagant and weird for Chinese taste, Li He was virtually excluded from the poetic canon until the mid-twentieth centuryToday, as the translator and scholar Anne M. Birrell, writes, “Of all the Tang poets, even of all Chinese poets, he best speaks for our disconcerting times.” Modern critics have compared him to Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Keats, and Trakl.
 
The Collected Poems of Li He is the only comprehensive selection of his surviving work (most of his poems were reputedly burned by his cousin after his death, for the honor of the family), rendered here in crystalline translations by the noted scholar JD. Frodsham.

Format	Häftad
Omfång	408 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Utgivningsdatum	2017-03-14
ISBN	9789629966607