The life of Tu Fu / Eliot Weinberger.

First edition.

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2024.

©2024

63 pages ; 19 cm

"New Directions Paperbook (NDP1595)"--title page verso.

"For over fifty years Eliot Weinberger has been celebrated for his innovative literary and political essays-translated into over thirty languages - as well as his trailblazing translations from the Spanish. In his exquisite new book The Life of Tu Fu, Weinberger has composed a montage of fifty-eight poems that capture the life and times of the great Tang Dynasty poet Tu Fu (712-770 AD). As he writes in a note to the edition, "This is not a translation of individual poems, but a fictional autobiography of Tu Fu derived and adapted from the thoughts, images, and allusions in the poetry." Through lines as penetrating as a classical tanka and as fluid as a mountain stream, themes of endless war and ongoing pandemic surround the wandering life of the ancient Chinese master"-- Provided by publisher.

English

August 14, 2024

Du, Fu, 712-770 > Poetry.