Bright moon, white clouds : selected poems of Li Po / edited and translated by J.P. Seaton.
2012
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Title
Bright moon, white clouds : selected poems of Li Po / edited and translated by J.P. Seaton.
Author
Uniform Title
Poems. English. Selections
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781590307465 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
1590307461 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
1590307461 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Published
Boston : Shambhala, 2012.
Distributed
Random House
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Description
xiv, 224 pages ; 18 cm
Exhibited
2013 Poets House Showcase
Summary
"Li Po (701-762) is considered one of the greatest poets to live during the Tang dynasty--what was considered to be the golden age for Chinese poetry. He was also the first Chinese poet to become well known in the West, and he greatly influenced many American poets during the twentieth century. Calling himself the "God of Wine" and known to his patrons as a "fallen immortal," Li Po wrote with eloquence, vividness, and often playfulness, as he extols the joys of nature, wine, and the life of a wandering recluse. Li Po had a strong social conscience, and he struggled against the hard times of his age. He was inspired by the newly blossoming Zen Buddhism and merged it with the Taoism that he had studied all his life. Though Li Po's love of wine is legendary, the translator, J. P. Seaton, includes poems on a wide range of topics--friendship and love, political criticism, poems written to curry patronage, poems of the spirit--to offer a new interpretation of this giant of Chinese poetry. Seaton offers us a poet who learned hard lessons from a life lived hard and offered his readers these lessons as vivid, lively poetry--as relevant today as it was during the Tang dynasty. Over one thousand poems have been attributed to Li Po, many of them unpublished. This new collection includes poems not available in any other editions"--
Formatted Contents Note
Contents note continued: Answering the Master of the Buddhist Association of Hu-chou, Who Has Enquired about "this Po Fellow"
Seeing Off Fan, the Mountain Man, Returning to Mount T'ai
By the Riverside, Seeing Off the Lady Master of the Tao, Who Travels with the Three Precious Gifts to the Southern Sacred Peaks
Banquet with Cheng Tsan-ch'ing at His Mountain Pool
Down Chung-nan Mountain and Overnight, with Wine, at Hu-ssu's House
Three, Five, Seven Word
Seeing a Friend Off, Returning to Wu, over Wine, Thinking of Ho Chih-chang
Parting at Thorngate
Overnight with a Friend
Drifting with Our Friend the Governor on Magpie Mountain Lake
Thinking of East Mountain
On Hearing That Wang Ch'ang-ling Has Been Demoted and Exiled to Dragon Point, I Wrote This and Sent It on Its Long Way There
From under the City Wall at Sandhill, a Letter to Tu Fu
A Poem, from Grain of Rice Mountain, for Tu Fu
Presented to Officer Lu
Contents note continued: In Repayment for an Invitation from Mr. Ts'ui
For Ts'ui Ch'iu-pu
For a Lady I Met on the Avenue
Part Three
Question and Answer in the Mountains
In the Old Style: A Pretty Face
In the Old Style: Chuang Tzu's Dream
A Farewell Banquet for My Uncle, the Revisor Yun, at the Pavilion of Hsieh T'iao
Song for the Road
I Banish Me
In Imitation of the Ancients
Autumn on My Heart, on My Mind
Drinking Alone under the Moon
Looking in the Mirror and Writing What My Heart Finds There
Again, It Weighs Heavily upon My Heart
I Looked All Over the Mountain for the Monk, but Not Finding Him, I Wrote This
T'ung Kuan Mountain: A Drunken Quatrain
Visiting the Tao Master of Tai-t'ien Mountain When He Wasn't There
Sitting at Reverence Mountain
Thoughts of a Quiet Night
Part Four
Contents note continued: Submitted at the Imperial Command, A Poem Written by the Dragon Pool in the Spring Garden While Viewing the Newly Greening Willows and Listening to the Hundreds of New Songs of the First Nightingales
A Spring Night in Loyang, Hearing a Flute
A Song of Bathing
In the Old Style: Moon's Tint
In the Old Style: I Climb High
Moon over the Pass
War South of the Wall
A Song of Farewell at Red Cliff
A Soldier's Ballad
War South of the Wall
Jade Stairs Lament
The King of Wu's Favorite, Just a Little Drunk
Tzu Ye: Ballads of Four Seasons
Song for Seng Ka
A Pa Girl's Song
Two Ballads of Ch'ang-kan
Passing the Night at the Foot of Five-Pines Mountain in the House of the Widow Ao
Part Five
Overnight at Shrimp Lake
The Road to Shu's a Hard Road
Omei Mountain Moon
Down to Chiang-ling
Climbing the Five Old Peaks of Mount Lu
Gazing at Heaven's Gate Mountain
Egret
Contents note continued: In the Old Style: The Yellow River
After the Ancients
A Song of White Clouds: Farewell to a Friend
Gazing on Lushan Falls
In the Old Style: I Got to the Islet beneath Wu-shan
Climbing the Peak of Great White
Over Heaven's Old Mama's Mountain in a Dream, at a Farewell Party
Overnight with the Master of Clear Creek House
Summit Temple
Ballad of the Voyager
Climbing Hsin-ping Tower
In the Old Style: Westward over Lotus Mountain
Clear Stream, Midnight, I Hear the Flute
Fall Cove Songs
Notes to the Poems
Appendix: Word-for-Word Analysis of Two Translations
Looking in the Mirror and Writing What My Heart Finds There.
Seeing Off Fan, the Mountain Man, Returning to Mount T'ai
By the Riverside, Seeing Off the Lady Master of the Tao, Who Travels with the Three Precious Gifts to the Southern Sacred Peaks
Banquet with Cheng Tsan-ch'ing at His Mountain Pool
Down Chung-nan Mountain and Overnight, with Wine, at Hu-ssu's House
Three, Five, Seven Word
Seeing a Friend Off, Returning to Wu, over Wine, Thinking of Ho Chih-chang
Parting at Thorngate
Overnight with a Friend
Drifting with Our Friend the Governor on Magpie Mountain Lake
Thinking of East Mountain
On Hearing That Wang Ch'ang-ling Has Been Demoted and Exiled to Dragon Point, I Wrote This and Sent It on Its Long Way There
From under the City Wall at Sandhill, a Letter to Tu Fu
A Poem, from Grain of Rice Mountain, for Tu Fu
Presented to Officer Lu
Contents note continued: In Repayment for an Invitation from Mr. Ts'ui
For Ts'ui Ch'iu-pu
For a Lady I Met on the Avenue
Part Three
Question and Answer in the Mountains
In the Old Style: A Pretty Face
In the Old Style: Chuang Tzu's Dream
A Farewell Banquet for My Uncle, the Revisor Yun, at the Pavilion of Hsieh T'iao
Song for the Road
I Banish Me
In Imitation of the Ancients
Autumn on My Heart, on My Mind
Drinking Alone under the Moon
Looking in the Mirror and Writing What My Heart Finds There
Again, It Weighs Heavily upon My Heart
I Looked All Over the Mountain for the Monk, but Not Finding Him, I Wrote This
T'ung Kuan Mountain: A Drunken Quatrain
Visiting the Tao Master of Tai-t'ien Mountain When He Wasn't There
Sitting at Reverence Mountain
Thoughts of a Quiet Night
Part Four
Contents note continued: Submitted at the Imperial Command, A Poem Written by the Dragon Pool in the Spring Garden While Viewing the Newly Greening Willows and Listening to the Hundreds of New Songs of the First Nightingales
A Spring Night in Loyang, Hearing a Flute
A Song of Bathing
In the Old Style: Moon's Tint
In the Old Style: I Climb High
Moon over the Pass
War South of the Wall
A Song of Farewell at Red Cliff
A Soldier's Ballad
War South of the Wall
Jade Stairs Lament
The King of Wu's Favorite, Just a Little Drunk
Tzu Ye: Ballads of Four Seasons
Song for Seng Ka
A Pa Girl's Song
Two Ballads of Ch'ang-kan
Passing the Night at the Foot of Five-Pines Mountain in the House of the Widow Ao
Part Five
Overnight at Shrimp Lake
The Road to Shu's a Hard Road
Omei Mountain Moon
Down to Chiang-ling
Climbing the Five Old Peaks of Mount Lu
Gazing at Heaven's Gate Mountain
Egret
Contents note continued: In the Old Style: The Yellow River
After the Ancients
A Song of White Clouds: Farewell to a Friend
Gazing on Lushan Falls
In the Old Style: I Got to the Islet beneath Wu-shan
Climbing the Peak of Great White
Over Heaven's Old Mama's Mountain in a Dream, at a Farewell Party
Overnight with the Master of Clear Creek House
Summit Temple
Ballad of the Voyager
Climbing Hsin-ping Tower
In the Old Style: Westward over Lotus Mountain
Clear Stream, Midnight, I Hear the Flute
Fall Cove Songs
Notes to the Poems
Appendix: Word-for-Word Analysis of Two Translations
Looking in the Mirror and Writing What My Heart Finds There.
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Shambhala library.
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