Chinese Rhyme-Prose
Language: English
Published by New York Review Books, 2015
Series: Book 1 of 8 - Calligrams
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- Title
- Chinese Rhyme-Prose
- Author
- Burton Watson
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- As new
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9629965631
- ISBN 13
- 9789629965631
- Item weight
- 290 grams
- Dimensions
- 1.17 centimeters width by 14.07 centimeters height by 21.57 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 1 of 8: Calligrams
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The fu, or rhyme-prose, is a major poetic form in Chinese literature, most popular between the 2nd century b.c. and 6th century a.d. Unlike what is usually considered Chinese poetry, it is a hybrid of prose and rhymed verse, more expansive than the condensed lyrics, verging on what might be called Whitmanesque. The thirteen long poems included here are descriptions of and meditations on such subjects as mountains and abandoned cities, the sea and the wind, owls and goddesses, partings and the idle life.
Burton Watson is universally considered the foremost English-language translator of classical Chinese and Japanese literature for the past five decades. Gary Snyder calls him a "great and graceful scholar," and Robert Aitken has written that "Burton Watson is a superb translator because he knows what literature is." Here his seemingly effortless translations are accompanied by a comprehensive introduction to the development and characteristics of the fu form, as well as excerpts from contemporary commentary on the genre. A path-breaking study of pre-modern Chinese literature and an essential volume for poetry readers, the book has been out of print for decades. For this edition, Lucas Klein has provided a preface that considers both the fu form and Watson's extraordinary work as a whole.
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About the Author
Lucas Klein's translations include Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems by Xi Chuan, which won the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize from the American Literary Translators Association. He lives in Hong Kong.
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