Poesi

Redan på femtiotalet skrev Tomas Tranströmer haikudikter, och i sitt senare författarskap har han flera gånger återkommit till den diktformen. Hans haikudikter har tilltalat läsare världen över, inte minst i haikuns hemland Japan. Tranströmers öve...

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I över fyra år har den svenske förläggaren Gui Minhai suttit fängslad utan rättegång. Han föddes i Kina 1964 och kom till Sverige för att studera 1988. I samband med massakern vid Himmelska fridens torg året därpå fick han uppehållstillstånd i Sve...

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Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to...

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The T'ang dynasty was the great age of Chinese poetry, and Po Chu-i (772-846) was one of that era's most prolific major poets. His appealing style, marked by deliberate simplicity, won him wide popularity among the Chinese public at larg...

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Du Fu (712-777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging ...

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Compiled by a leading scholar of Chinese poetry, Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown is the first collection of Chan (Zen) poems to be situated within Chan thought and practice. Combined with exquisite paintings by Charles Chu, the anthology compell...

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Sources show Qu Yuan (?340-278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday called Poet's Day, or the Dragon Boat Festival. His work, which f...

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Sources show Qu Yuan (?340-278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday called Poet's Day, or the Dragon Boat Festival. His work, which f...

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When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on December 10, 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was in Jinzhou Prison, serving an eleven-year sentence for what Beijing called incitement to subvert state power. In Oslo, actress Liv Ullmann read a long stat...

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This work is a Poetry Book Society recommended translation. "Forms of Distance" is Bei Dao's second bilingual collection since his enforced exile from China in 1989. Michael Hofmann described the first, "Old Snow", as &apo...

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This rich compendium of translations is the first to look at Chinese poetry through its enormous influence on American poetry. Starting with Ezra Pound's "Cathay" (1915), it includes translations by three other American poets (Willi...

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Wang Wei (701-761 AD) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China's 3,000-year poetic history. He was the consummate master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify...

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This book has collected around 400 poems from 38 poets, including both classical and modern Chinese poems written and posted in an online Culture-Literature website www.CrossingLand.Net during 2005-2012. Countries or areas of our authors have livi...

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This is the 2nd book entitled "Meet wherever we live" as a collection of essay published on the www.Crossingland.Net, a cultural-literature website. The works are mainly published during 2008-2012 by 52 writers live all over the world. Since a lot...

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This volume, Seasons of the Soul, is a poetic journey describing the spiritual awakening of the author through a merging with nature. A poetically depicted illustration of the progression through the seasons or phases of the soul's journey, it is ...

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For the first time in any Western language, the complete text of China's classic poetry anthology.

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Prelude is Xu Yue's first book of poetry. The poems in this collection were written from 2007 to 2012. They are highly lyrical, and contain a deeply troubled voice. Xu Yue reveals a different reality in his poetry where he carries an ongoing dialo...

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The Empty Chair is Wang Dongdong's first book of poems written in the past ten years. He is regarded as a mature poet with a sharp mind. In China, his poetry is considered some of the finest craftsmanship of his generation. He has a unique sensiti...

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Private Life is Yuan Yongping's first collection of poetry, the best of her poems written in the past ten years. She considers herself a failure in life, except possessing this collection, which she believes both summarizes her writing career and ...

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