Asian - Chinese
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Twenty-Nine Goodbyes: An Introduction to Chinese Poetry
$26.95 Add to cartAn engrossing, witty introduction to classical Chinese poetry through twenty-nine translations of a single poem
- Author: Billings, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1531508359
- Language: English
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Study of Sorrow: Translations
$22.00 Add to cartIn Study of Sorrow, Shangyang Fang breathes contemporary life into the poems of twenty-nine Song Dynasty Ci poets.
For many years, Song Dynasty Ci poetry has seemed eclipsed by the incandescence of Tan
- Author: Fang, Shangyang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1556597177
- Language: English
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Sidetracks
$18.95 Read moreA TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2024
A 2024 NPR BOOK WE LOVE
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
Sidetracks, Bei Dao’s first new collection in almost fifteen year
- Author: Dao, Bei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 081123844X
- Language: English
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The Magpie at Night: The Complete Poems of Li Qingzhao (1084-1151)
$18.00 Add to cartA luminous new translation of the greatest woman poet in Chinese history, highlighting Li Qingzhao’s iconoclastic verse and showcasing her visionary portrait of the inner workings of the artist’s mind
- Author: Qingzhao, Li
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0374612757
- Language: English
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Cold Mountain Poems
$20.00 Add to cartThe best of Hanshan’s beloved poems–among the earliest of Zen-style Buddhist poetry, beloved by the Beat Generation–here newly translated and organized thematically in a beautiful Pocket Poets hardc… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Hanshan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1101908459
- Language: English
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The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation
$16.95 Add to cartthe lantern light seems to have written a poem;
they feel lonesome since i won’t read them.
–“lantern” by Fei MingThe work of Tang Dynasty Classical Chinese poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei ha
- Author: Wang, Yilin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1778430384
- Language: English
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Bloom & Other Poems
$22.95 Read more“Bloom and change your way of living,” Xi Chuan exhorts us. “Bloom / unleash a deep underground spring with your rhizome.” In his wildly roving new collection, Bloom & Other Poems, Xi Chuan, like a mo… [more below]
- Author: XI, Chuan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231372
- Language: English
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The Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems
$19.95 Read morein the mirror there is always this moment
this moment leads to the door of rebirth
the door opens to the sea
the rose of time
–Bei DaoThe Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems presents a glowing selecti… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1160
- Author: Dao, Bei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218481
- Language: English
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Cathay
$15.95 Read moreFirst published in 1915, Cathay, Ezra Pound’s early monumental work, originally contained fourteen translations from the Chinese and a translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem “The Seafarer.” Over time, th… [more below]
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0811223523
- Language: English
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Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry
$16.00 Add to cart“Iron Moon is a monumental achievement. It redraws the boundaries of working-class poetry for the new millennium by incorporating at its center issues like migration, globalization, and rank-and-file
- Author: Goodman, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1945680032
- Language: English
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A Treatise on Stars
$17.95 Read moreA Treatise on Stars extends Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s intensely phenomenological poetics to the fiery bodies in a “field of heaven…outside spacetime.” Long, lyrical lines map a geography of interconne… [more below]
- Author: Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229386
- Language: English
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The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry
$18.00 Read moreNational Book Award-winner Arthur Sze presents a one-of-a-kind anthology that vividly traces Chinese poetry from its centuries-old lyrical traditions up to the present day.In The Silk Dragon II, Nati… [more below]
- Author: Sze, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 155659707X
- Language: English
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A Cha Chaan Teng That Does Not Exist
$16.00 Add to cartDerek Chung’s poems capture the East-meets-West synergy of Hong Kong’s cosmopolitan culture, while tracking the city’s myriad transformations over the past two decades. Though his poems bear the influ… [more below]
- Series: Hong Kong Atlas
- Author: Chung, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1938890280
- Language: English
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The Poetic Garden of Liu Zongyuan
$16.95 Read moreLiu Zongyuan’s remarkable poetry reflects the complex experience of political exile and observes the natural world of his new home in South China with a caring eye.
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- Author: Zongyuan, Liu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 164605217X
- Language: English
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The Dog Years of Reeducation: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartIn the Chinese Cultural Revolution, millions of middle school and high school graduates, called the zhiqing or Educated Youth, were sent up to the mountains and down to the countryside to receive reed… [more below]
- Author: Zheng, Jianqing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1956440399
- Language: English
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Finding Them Gone: Visiting China’s Poets of the Past
$27.00 Add to cart“A travel writer with a cult following.”–The New York Times
“There are very few westerners who could successfully cover so much territory in China, but Porter pulls it off. Finding Them Gone uniquely
- Author: Pine, Red
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1556594895
- Language: English
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The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
$49.99 Add to cartThe authoritative, bilingual edition of Cold Mountain’s revered Zen-Taoist poetry by the acclaimed translator of Lao-tzu’s Taoteching. An essential volume.
- Author: Mountain (Han Shan), Cold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1556595522
- Language: English
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Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology
$26.00 Add to cartWith this groundbreaking collection Classical Chinese Poetry, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra
- Author: Hinton, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0374531900
- Language: English
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Dancing with the Dead: The Essential Red Pine Translations
$22.00 Read moreAn essential collection from the leading figure of Chinese poetry translation, presenting work of insight, humor, and musicality that continues to resonates across thousands of years.
Red Pine is one o… [more below]
- Author: Pine, Red
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596456
- Language: English
