Book record
Classical Chinese poetry
Anthology
Translated from Chinese by David Hinton
Classical Chinese poetry is an anthology translated by David Hinton from Chinese, gathering Chinese-language poetry from China through classical Chinese poetry as anthology, tradition, and a long conversation in miniature between image, silence, and world. 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 mountains, river, moon, and the precision of poems that seem to leave more unsaid than said. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. Classical Chinese poetry belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives the library a foundational anthology of Chinese poetic inheritance. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China
- ISBN
- 9780374105365