9789629966607-9629966603-The Collected Poems of Li He (Calligrams)

The Collected Poems of Li He (Calligrams)

ISBN-13: 9789629966607
ISBN-10: 9629966603
Edition: Main
Author: Li He
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: New York Review Books
Format: Paperback 400 pages
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ISBN-13: 9789629966607
ISBN-10: 9629966603
Edition: Main
Author: Li He
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: New York Review Books
Format: Paperback 400 pages

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The Collected Poems of Li He (Calligrams) (ISBN-13: 9789629966607 and ISBN-10: 9629966603), written by authors Li He, was published by New York Review Books in 2017. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Collected Poems of Li He (Calligrams) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.59.

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The definitive collection of works by one of the Tang Dynasty's most eccentric (and badly-behaved) poets, now back in print for the first time in decades.

Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang dynasty. He began writing at the age of seven and died at twenty-six from alcoholism or, according to a later commentator, “sexual dissipation,” or both. An obscure and unsuccessful relative of the imperial family, he would set out at dawn on horseback, pause, write a poem, and toss the paper away. A servant boy followed him to collect these scraps in a tapestry bag.

Long considered far too extravagant and weird for Chinese taste, Li He was virtually excluded from the poetic canon until the mid-twentieth century. Today, as the translator and scholar Anne M. Birrell, writes, “Of all the Tang poets, even of all Chinese poets, he best speaks for our disconcerting times.” Modern critics have compared him to Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Keats, and Trakl.

The Collected Poems of Li He is the only comprehensive selection of his surviving work (most of his poems were reputedly burned by his cousin after his death, for the honor of the family), rendered here in crystalline translations by the noted scholar J. D. Frodsham.

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