Description
Li Po (AD 701-762) and Tu Fu are traditionally celebrated as the two greatest poets in the Chinese canon. David Hinton’s translation of Li Po’s poetry is no less an achievement than his critically acclaimed The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, also published by Anvil. Li Po’s work is suffused with Taoism and Zen Buddhism, and the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in China and Japan for over a thousand years. Called ‘the Banished Immortal’, Li Po was seen as an exiled spirit moving through this world with an unearthly ease and freedom from attachment.
David Hinton’s versions reflect the ambiguity and density of Li Po’s originals. They are compelling English poems that alter our conception of Chinese poetry.
Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast 
Milk and Honey 
The Moon Before Morning 
Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems 
Santa's Greatest Gift 
Spiritlands 
Six Vowels and Twenty Three Consonants: An Anthology of Persian Poetry from Ruda 
Comic Poems 
Counting Backwards 
The Months