Book details

  • Genre:poetry
  • Sub-genre:Ancient & Classical
  • Language:English
  • Pages:196
  • eBook ISBN:9798995488934

Facing the Moon

Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu

By Keith Holyoak

Overview

Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu brings together English translations of China's two master poets. This bilingual collection pairs each poem with its original Chinese text, complemented by calligraphy and traditional ink paintings. Published to mark the twentieth anniversary of its first edition, this expanded volume includes several newly added longer poems, an introduction to the poets and their legacy, and a bibliography. What sets Holyoak's translations apart is their dedication to structural fidelity alongside poetic meaning. Rather than adopting free verse or conventional English rhyme schemes, they carefully approximate the metric form and rhyme patterns of the classical originals.
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Description

Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu brings together English translations of China's two master poets. This bilingual collection pairs each verse with its original Chinese text, complemented by calligraphy and traditional ink paintings. Published to mark the twentieth anniversary of its first edition, this expanded volume includes several newly added longer poems, an introduction to the poets and their legacy, and a bibliography. What sets Holyoak's translations apart is their dedication to structural fidelity alongside poetic meaning. Rather than adopting free verse or conventional English rhyme schemes, they carefully approximate the metric form and rhyme patterns of the classical originals.
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About The Author

Keith Holyoak is a poet and cognitive scientist. Raised on a dairy farm in British Columbia, Canada, he is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 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.
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