The Life of Tu Fu

Reviews

"My favorite essayist is Eliot Weinberger. His remarkable breadth of calm concern is impressive." — Gary Snyder, The New York Times Book Review

"Combining scholarly authority with a moral allegiance to the arcane, the translator and editor Weinberger creates genre-bending essays and prose poems to help us see the world anew." — Daphne Kalotay, The New York Times

"His essays use lists, collages of information, and sometimes, as poetry does, varying line breaks. They don’t read like anyone else’s work." — Christopher Byrd, The New Yorker

"Weinberger’s verse achieves not only the linearity of narrative but also a leveling effect—putting a fish on par with the moon…Tu Fu pursued a poetry illuminating at once the nonhierarchical, embodied chaos of the real as well as the interplay of absence and presence that defines the Tao." — Brian Patrick Eha, Poetry Foundation

"Few books offer in so few words such a marvelously damning vision of humanity. The Life of Tu Fu is a sobering and laconic reminder that the mountain and the mosquito will be here long after we are gone." — Eric Bies, Barrelhouse