Book record
Chinese Love Poetry
Anthology
Translated from Chinese by Jane Portal
Chinese Love Poetry is an anthology translated by Qu Lei Lei, Jane Portal from Chinese, gathering Chinese-language poetry from China through Chinese love poetry gathered as anthology, making desire appear across courtly, classical, and intimate registers. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so I would not treat it as one poet's private weather. The better entrance is through love, courtship, longing, and the changing vocabulary of attachment over literary time. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. Chinese Love Poetry belongs in the translated poetry library because it offers a broad anthology doorway into Chinese lyric desire and emotional history. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China
- ISBN
- 9781566569965