The Late Poems of Meng Chiao
Author | : Meng Chiao |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0691217726 |
Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.D. 751--814) developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. With the T'ang Dynasty crumbling, Meng's later work employed surrealist and symbolist techniques as it turned to a deep introspection. This is truly major work-- work that may be the most radical in the Chinese tradition. And though written more than a thousand years ago, it is remarkably fresh and contemporary. But, in spite of Meng's significance, this is the first volume of his poetry to appear in English. Until the age of forty, Meng Chiao lived as a poet-recluse associated with Ch'an (Zen) poet-monks in south China. He then embarked on a rather unsuccessful career as a government official. Throughout this time, his poetry was decidedly mediocre, conventional verse inevitably undone by his penchant for the strange and surprising. After his retirement, Meng developed the innovative poetry translated in this book. His late work is singular not only for its bleak introspection and "avant-garde" methods, but also for its dimensions: in a tradition typified by the short lyric poem, this work is made up entirely of large poetic sequences.
Mountain Home
Author | : David Hinton |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780811216241 |
China's tradition of ``rivers-and-mountains'' poetry stretches across millennia.
The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Author | : Victor H. Mair |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 1380 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780231074292 |
Brings together fiction, poetry, drama, folk stories, elegies, letters, travelogues, criticism and theory. It emphasizes the distinctive features of Chinese literature through the ages by means of its topical arrangement.
Prologue to the Chinese Revolution
Author | : Charlton M. Lewis |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684172012 |
The author argues that the transformation of ideas and institutions in Hunan arounfd the turn of the twentieth century was brought about mainly by the orthodox Confucian literati and that imperialist penetration was largely the result of changes within the province.
Bijoux in the Dark
Author | : John Yau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9780988713789 |
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. At the conclusion of BIJOUX IN THE DARK, John Yau states, "I did not write a hauntingly beautiful book." A line that contrasts with the book's introductory poem, in which hauntings and beauty abound. With all of BIJOUX IN THE DARK, the answer is multifaceted as Yau disavows pretension and expectation and instead heeds a candor beyond categorization. Sonnets and pantoums abound alongside graffiti and Top Ten lists. Yau's work veers from satire, ekphrasis, and homage to imagined histories, surreal dimensions, and Egyptology. The book's list of characters includes Albrecht Durer, Hieronymus Bosch, Francis Bacon, Mark Wahlberg, Donald Trump, Dante, and Meng Chiao. Yet, from this miscellany there comes an ingenious whole deft in its wit and bite. Here John Yau is at home with the quirky and the profound, and any combination thereof.
World Poetry
Author | : Katharine Washburn |
Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 1338 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780393041309 |
An anthology of the best poetry ever written contains more than sixteen hundred poems, spanning more than four millennia, from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century
A Drifting Boat
Author | : Jerome P. Seaton |
Publisher | : White Pine Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781877727375 |
Poetry. This anthology gathers together over 1500 years of Chinese Zen (Ch'an) poetry from the earliest writing, including the Hsin Hsin Ming written by the 3rd Patriarch, to the poetry of monks in this century. Poets include Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Yuan Mei, the crazy hermits Han-shan and Shih-te, as well as many anonymous monks and hermits.