The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih by Wang An-Shih and translated by David Hinton

This is poetry from China.

The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih by Wang An-Shih translated by David Hinton is published by New Directions. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780811222631E12.

The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih, by Wang An-Shih, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by David Hinton, published by New Directions in 2015. It is a Chinese collection of late work by Wang An-Shih, translated by David Hinton, attentive to age, retreat, and perception. Late poems often carry a different weather, and this book invites readers to listen for what happens when ambition gives way to clarity, landscape, and inward measure. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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