{"product_id":"silk-dragon-translations-from-the-chinese-kage-an-books","title":"Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese (Kage-an Books)","description":"Arthur Sze has rare qualifications when it comes to translating Chinese: he is an award-winning poet who was raised in both languages. A second-generation Chinese-American, Sze has gathered over 70 poems by poets who have had a profound effect on Chinese culture, American poetics and Sze's own maturation as an artist. Also included is an informative insightful essay on the methods and processes involved in translating ideogrammic poetry.\nMOONLIGHT NIGHT\nby Tu Fu\ncan only look out alone at the moon.\nFrom Ch'ang-an I pity my children\nwho cannot yet remember or understand.\nHer hair is damp in the fragrant mist.\nHer arms are cold in the clear light.\nWhen will we lean beside the window\nand the moon shine on our dried tears?\nSze's anthology features poets who have become literary icons to generations of Chinese readers and scholars. Included are the poems of the great, rarely translated female poet Li Ching Chao alongside the remorseful exile poems of Su Tung-p'o. This book will prove a necessary and insightful addition to the library of any reader of poetry in translation.\nThe poets include:\nT'ao Ch'ien\nWang Han\nWang Wei\nLi Po\nTu Fu\nPo Chü-yi\nTu Mu\nLi Shang-yin\nSu Tung-p'o\nLi Ch'ing-chao\nShen Chou\nChu Ta\nWen I-to\nYen Chen\nArthur Sze is the author of six previous books of poetry, including The Redshifting Web and Archipelago. He has received the Asian American Literary Award for his poetry and translation, a prestigious Lannan Literary Award, and was recently a finalist for the Leonore Marshall Poetry Prize. He teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts.\nfrom A Painting of a Cat\nNan Ch'uan wanted to be reborn as a water buffalo,\nbut who did the body of the malicious cat become?\nBlack clouds and covering snow are alike.\nIt took thirty years for clouds to disperse, snow to melt.\n-Pa-ta-shan-jen (1626-1705)\nThe Last Day\nWater sobs and sobs in the bamboo pipe gutter.\nGreen tongues of banana leaves lick at the windowpanes.\nThe four sur\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1556591535\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1556591535.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Sze, Arthur\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41584333520954,"sku":"DBV.1556591535.VG","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1556591535-0.jpg?v=1786244988","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/silk-dragon-translations-from-the-chinese-kage-an-books","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}