Descripción
The Poetic Garden of Liu Zongyuan presents poems by the Tang Dynasty cofounder of the Classical Prose Movement written on the Chinese empire's southern margins. In these remarkable pieces, Liu intertwines South China's landscapes and plants-such as scarlet canna, banyan, and white myoga ginger-with reflections on honor, duty, banishment, and belonging in ways unique in the history of Chinese poetry. The two translators, Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton and Yu Yuanyuan, one American and one Chinese, preserve and showcase the singular beauty of Liu's poetic garden for the English-speaking world.
Author: Liu Zongyuan
Publisher: Phoneme Media
Published: 08/29/2023
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.83w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9781646052172
ISBN10: 164605217X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Asian | Chinese
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Animals & Nature
About the Author
Liu Zongyuan (773 - 28 November 819) was a Chinese philosopher, poet, and politician who lived during the Tang Dynasty. Liu was born in present-day Yongji, Shanxi. Along with Han Yu, he was a founder of the Classical Prose Movement.
Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton is a recent graduate of the University of Oxford, where he studied Chinese poetry and translation as a Marshall Scholar. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Prelude, Poetry Salzburg Review, Griffith Review, Salamander, Sycamore Review, TAB, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Account, Raritan, and other publications.
Yu Yuanyuan is Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Studies at Anhui University, academic visitor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge (2018-2019), and translator. Her recent poetry translation appears in Poetry Hall, The World Poets Quarterly, etc. Her translations have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, "the only truly international journal in Britain" (James Kirkup), Poetry Hall, The World Poets Quarterly, and Translating China among other publications.