The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton Paperback - 2020

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2020* Publisher: New Direction Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a set of decorated stones. No bumps rubs or shelf wear to edges & corners. No reading creases to spine or to hinge. Un-used. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 243 pp. text. xxxv pp. notes, appendices & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Tu Fu (712-770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton's original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in America. Most of Tu Fu's best poems were written in the last decade of his life, as an impoverished refugee fleeing the devastation of civil war. In the midst of these challenges, his always personal poems manage to combine a remarkable range of possibilities: elegant simplicity and great complexity, everyday life and grand historical drama, private philosophical depth and social engagement in a world consumed by war. Through it all, his is a wisdom that can only be called elemental, and his poems sound remarkably contemporary.* This is a FINE text copy of the 1st./1st. fnl, with no visible faults AS NEW.*