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“Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills.”—American Poetry Review
Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies,
Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows.
I envy you, drunk with flowers,
Butterflies swirling in your dreams.
—Ch’ien Ch’i
This exquisite gift book offers a wide sampling of Chinese verse, from the first century to our own time, beginning with the lyric poetry of Tu Fu, moving to the folk songs of the Six Dynasties Period, on to the Sung Dynasty, and to the present. Also represented are some of the best-known women of Chinese poetry, including Li Ching-chao and Chu Shu-chen. These simple, accessible but profound poems come through to us with a breathtaking immediacy in Kenneth Rexroth’s English versions—a wonderful gift for any lover of poetry.
Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows.
I envy you, drunk with flowers,
Butterflies swirling in your dreams.
—Ch’ien Ch’i
This exquisite gift book offers a wide sampling of Chinese verse, from the first century to our own time, beginning with the lyric poetry of Tu Fu, moving to the folk songs of the Six Dynasties Period, on to the Sung Dynasty, and to the present. Also represented are some of the best-known women of Chinese poetry, including Li Ching-chao and Chu Shu-chen. These simple, accessible but profound poems come through to us with a breathtaking immediacy in Kenneth Rexroth’s English versions—a wonderful gift for any lover of poetry.
Also By: Kenneth Rexroth 
100 Poems from the Japanese
Paperback, 1964
It is remarkable that any Westerner—even so fine a poet as Kenneth Rexroth—could have captured in translation so much of the subtle essence of classic Japanese poetry: the depth of controlled...
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
E Book, 2014
The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth.Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese
E Book, 2014
“Rexroth’s readings from the Japanese master poets are breathtaking in their simplicity and clarity.”—The New York TimesWomen Poets of Japan
E Book, 2014
From early as the seventh century up to the present day, no other has had so many important women poets as Japan.One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love and the Turning Year
E Book, 2014
An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation.
Also By: Eliot Weinberger
The Life of Tu Fu
Paperback, 2024
A book-length poem by “our best living literary essayist” (Forrest Gander).
Poetry Pamphlets 1-4
Paperback, 2023
Angels & Saints
E Book, 2020
A gorgeously illustrated co-publication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). With a guide to the illustrations by Mary Wellesley.
Angels & Saints
Hardback, 2020
A gorgeously illustrated co-publication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). With a guide to the illustrations by Mary Wellesley.
The Poems of Octavio Paz
Paperback, 2018
Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureate
