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The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese PoetryEdited by Eliot WeinbergerTranslated by Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder and William Carlos Williams
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (272 pages) (Pub. Nov 2007) 9780856463969 Out of Stock
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 (William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder) and a translator-scholar-poet (David Hinton), all long associated with New Directions, the great New York literary publishing house founded just over 70 years ago.
Praise for Ezra Pound
'The previously unpublished pages of an epic masterpiece offer fresh insights into its creation'
The Guardian Praise for William Carlos Williams 'William Carlos Williams, paediatrician by day, literary giant of the evening hours, is one of the great experimentalists of twentieth century American poetry, and this summer we can all enjoy a reprint of his long poem Paterson, named after a town in New Jersey, newly reimagined in this wild, invigorating, free-form, jazz-like patchwork of prose and poetry, whose language veers from the headily philosophical to the footloose and wayward.' Michael Glover, The Tablet 'This is an essential book for anyone who is serious about poetry.' Steven Hanson, the Manchester Review of Books |
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