Facing the Moon

Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu is a bilingual collection of English and Chinese versions of poetry by Li Bai and Du Fu, the most renowned poets in all of Chinese literature. Translated by Keith Holyoak, this volume includes an introduction to the poets and their work, plus a bibliography. Holyoak's translations capture the essential beauty of the poets’ language, while retaining key elements of the structure of the original poems, including their metric form and rhyme scheme. The poems transport the reader back to the Tang dynasty of 8th-century China, while at the same time conveying timeless insights into the human condition that remain as relevant today as they were centuries ago.

Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu is a bilingual collection of English and Chinese versions of poetry by Li Bai and Du Fu, the most renowned poets in all of Chinese literature. Translated by Keith Holyoak, this volume includes an introduction to the poets and their work, plus a bibliography. Holyoak's translations capture the essential beauty of the poets’ language, while retaining key elements of the structure of the original poems, including their metric form and rhyme scheme. The poems transport the reader back to the Tang dynasty of 8th-century China, while at the same time conveying timeless insights into the human condition that remain as relevant today as they were centuries ago.

 Keith Holyoak, Ph.D., is a poet and cognitive scientist. Raised on a dairy farm in British Columbia, Canada, he is currently a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Holyoak is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Cognitive Science Society. His poems and his translations of classical Chinese poetry have been published in numerous literary magazines in the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Austria, and New Zealand. Recordings of Holyoak’s Chinese translations and also his own poetry, with musical scores, are available through Broken Electric Records (www.BrokenElectric.com).