Complete Poems

Li Ch'ing-Chao; translated and editied by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

ISBN 10: 0811207447 / ISBN 13: 9780811207447

Published by New Directions, 1980

About this Item

From a private collection - with dust jacket - minimal wear - slight dust related foxing to upper edge of page block, otherwise no marks or damage - VG+/VG+.

Seller Inventory # ED446*

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Complete Poems
• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811207447
• ISBN 13: 9780811207447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

The Complete Poems of Li Ch'ing-chao (1084-c. 1151) brings together for the first time in English translation all the surviving verse of China's greatest woman poet.

Written during the final years of the Sung Dynasty, with its political intrigues and collapse in the face of the Tatar invasions, her poems reveal an imaginative freshness, sensuous imagery, and satirical spirit often at odds with the decadent Confucian code of the day.

About the Author

Poet-essayist Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) was a high-school dropout, disillusioned ex-Communist, pacifist, anarchist, rock-climber, critic and translator, mentor, Catholic-Buddhist spiritualist and a prominent figure of San Francisco's Beat scene. He is regarded as a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and is among the first American poets to explore traditional Japanese forms such as the haiku.