Finding them gone : visiting China's poets of the past / Bill Porter, Red Pine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porter, Bill, author.

Red Pine, 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, Chinese.

Chinese poetry--History and criticism.

Chinese poetry.

Literature and society--China.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 pages) : illustrations, map, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Port Townsend, Washington] : Copper Canyon Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Bill Porter has been one of the most prolific translators of Chinese texts, while also developing into a travel writer with a cult following."-The New York Times "Red Pine's out-of-the-mainstream work is canny and clearheaded, and it has immeasurably enhanced Zen/Taoist literature and practice."-Kyoto Journal "Red Pine's succinct and informative notes for each poem are core samples of the cultural, political, and literary history of China." -Asian ReporterTo pay homage to China's greatest poets, renowned translator Bill Porter-who is also known by his Chinese name "Red Pine"-traveled throughout China visiting dozens of poets' graves and performing idiosyncratic rituals that featured Kentucky bourbon and reading poems aloud to the spirits.Combining travelogue, translations, history, and personal stories, this intimate and fast-paced tour of modern China celebrates inspirational landscapes and presents new translations of classical poems.An entertaining storyteller who is deeply knowledgeable about Chinese culture, both ancient and modern, Porter brings the reader into the journey-from standing at the edge of the trash pit that used to be Tu Mu's grave to sitting in Han Shan's cave where the Buddhist hermit "Butterfly Woman" serves tea.Illustrated with over one hundred photographs and two hundred poems, Finding Them Gone combines the love of travel with an irrepressible exuberance for literature.Bill Porter (a.k.a. "Red Pine") is widely recognized as one of the world's finest translators of Chinese religious and poetic texts. His best-selling books include Lao-tzu's Taoteching and The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. He lives near Seattle, Washington"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Note to Reader

Dedication

Contents

Day 1: Ch'en Tzu-ang, Confucius, anonymous (Book of Poetry), Li Pai, Tu Fu

Day 2: Li Ch'ing-chao, Hsin Ch'i-chi

Day 3: Ts'ao Chih

Day 4: Juan Chi, Ch'eng Tzu-an, Pai Chu-yi, Ou-yang Hsiu, Su Tung-p'o

Day 5: Wei Ying-wu, Meng Chiao, Han Yu, Tu Fu, Pai Chu-yi

Day 6: Lao-tzu, Li Shang-yin, Wang Wei, Juan Chi, Liu Yu-hsi

Day 7: Wang Wei, Shih-wu (Stonehouse), Liu Tsung-yuan, Tu Fu, Han Yu, Tu Mu

Day 8: Wei Ying-wu

Day 9: Li Pai, Tu Fu

Day 10: Hsueh T'ao

Day 11: Tu Fu, Ch'en Tzu-ang

Day 12: Chia Tao, Wu-k'o

Day 13: Tu Fu, Li Pai

Day 14: Ch'u Yuan, Saotan Poetry Society

Day 15: Pai Chu-yi, Su Tung-p'o, Ou-yang Hsiu

Day 16: Meng Hao-jan, Wang Wei, Li Pai

Day 17: Li Pai

Day 18: Su Tung-p'o

Day 19: Tu Fu, Ch'u Yuan

Day 20: Hsieh Ling-yun, Huang T'ing-chien, Han-shan, Wang Wei

Day 21: Wei Ying-wu, Pai Chu-yi, T'ao Yuan-ming

Day 22: Wang An-shih, Hsin Ch'i-chi

Day 23: Hsieh T'iao, Li Pai

Day 24: Wang An-shih, Fan Ch'eng-ta

Day 25: Chiao-jan, Shih-wu (Stonehouse)

Day 26: Meng Chiao, Chu Shu-chen

Day 27: Su Tung-p'o, Pai Chu-yi, Lin Ho-ching

Day 28: Lu You

Day 29: Li Pai, Hsieh Ling-yun

Day 30: Han-shan, Feng-kan, Shih-te (Cold Mountain &amp

friends)

Lexicon

About the Author

Translations by Red Pine &amp

Travel Writings by Bill Porter

Acknowledgments

Copyright

Special Thanks.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61932-152-1

OCLC:

956122330