Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu

by Li Bai, Du Fu, Keith Holyoak (Translator), Li Po, Tu Fu

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781882291120
Publisher:	O y s t e r R i v e r P r e s s
Publication date:	11/14/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	127
Sales rank:	319,923
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Keith Holyoak, poet, translator of classical Chinese poetry, and cognitive scientist, was raised on a dairy farm in British Columbia, Canada. His scientific work focuses on the nature of human thinking and its basis in the brain. He has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Currently he is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of the poetry collection MY MINOTAUR (Dos Madres Press, 2010) and translator of FACING THE MOON: POEMS OF LI BAI AND DU FU (Oyster River Press, 2007).