Books by Li Shangyin
Li Shangyin
by Li Shangyin
A one-of-a-kind collection of work by little-known Late Tang poetic master Li Shangyin.
Li Shangyin is one of the foremost poets of the late Tang, but until now he has rarely been translated into English, perhaps because the esotericism and sensuality of his work set him apart from the austere masters of the Chinese literary canon. Li favored allusiveness over directness, and his poems unfurl through mysterious images before coalescing into an emotional whole. Combining hedonistic aestheticism with stark fatalism, Li’s poetry is an intoxicating mixture of pleasure and grief, desire and loss, everywhere imbued with a singular nostalgia for the present moment.
This pioneering, bilingual edition presents Chloe Garcia Roberts’s translations of a wide selection of Li’s verse in the company of other versions by the prominent sinologist A. C. Graham and the scholar-poet Lucas Klein.
This bilingual edition includes the original Chinese versions of each poem.
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Derangements of My Contemporaries: Miscellaneous Notes (New Directions Poetry Pamphlet)
by Li Shangyin
Proudly part of the New Directions Poetry Pamphlets, a classical Chinese poet considered one of the great masters
Ranging from the humorous and scathing to the evocative and strange, this 9th century collection of list poems by the late Tang dynasty poet Li Shangyin documents one poet’s scrutiny of his riotous times. Li gives a glimpse into the mundane experiences of the waning years of Chinese poetry’s golden age, while providing an uncanny reflection of the minutiae of our own contemporary lives, loves, and irritations.
Besieged by a drunk person, no escape.
Beautiful concubine, jealous wife.
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Poetry Pamphlets 13-16 (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)
by Anne Carson, Osip Mandelshtam, Li Shangyin, Sakutaro Hagiwara
New Directions Poetry Pamphlets 13-16
A four-pack of our Spring 2014 Poetry Pamphlets, featuring:
The Albertine Workout, by Anne Carson
Derangements of my Contemporaries, by Li Shangyin
The Iceland, by Sakutaro Hagiwara
The Poems of Osip Mandelstam
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