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A Note on the Selections and Some Words of Thanks xxxv | |
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Preface: The Poem Behind the Poem: Literary Translation as English-Language Poetry | |
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Introduction to Chinese Poetic Form (as a Function of Yin-Yang Symmetry) | |
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Zhou Dynasty (1122-256 bce) Book Of Songs(c. 600 bce) | |
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White Moonrise Fruit Plummets from the Plum Tree Serene Girl In the Wilds Is a Dead River-Deer All the Grasslands Are Yellow | |
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Ripe Millet I Beg You, Zhongzi When the Gourd Has Dried Leaves | |
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From the Dao De Jing | |
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From Encountering Sorrow | |
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Han Dynasty (206 bce-220 ce) Nineteen Ancient Poems | |
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"Traveling traveling and still traveling traveling" | |
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"Green so green is the river grass" | |
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"Green so green are the cypress over the burial mounds" | |
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"At today's great banquet" | |
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"A tall tower in the northwest" | |
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"I cross the river to pick lotus flowers" | |
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"Clear moon pours bright light at night" | |
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"Soft and frail is a solitary bamboo" | |
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"There is a wonderful tree in the courtyard" | |
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"Far and far is the Cowherd Star" | |
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"I turn my carriage around to return" | |
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"The east wall is tall and long" | |
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"I drive my wagon to the east gate" | |
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"Day by day the dead are receding" | |
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"Man dies within a hundred years" | |
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"Chilly, chilly, the year-end clouds darken" | |
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"A cold current in early winter" | |
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"A traveler came from afar" | |
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"Pure and white bright moon" | |
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JIA YI(200-168 bce) The Owl | |
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Lament | |
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Anonymous Folk Songs from the Music Bureau (c. 120 bce) | |
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The East Gate A Sad Tune He Waters His Horse Near a Breach in the Long Wall At Fifteen I Went to War An Ancient Poem Written for the Wife of Jiao Zhongqing | |
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Six Dynasties Period (220-589) | |
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Watching the Blue Ocean Song of Bitter Cold | |
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From Chanting My Thoughts | |
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To Be a Woman | |
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Three Songs Four Seasons Song: Spring Four Seasons Song: Autumn | |
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From The Art of Writing | |
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Preface | |
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The Impulse | |
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Meditation | |
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Process | |
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The Joy of Words | |
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The Riding Crop | |
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Making It New | |
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Ordinary and Sublime | |
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The Well-Wrought Urn | |
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Inspiration | |
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Writer's Block | |
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The Power of a Poem | |
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In Memory of My Dead Wife | |
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Return to My Country Home Begging for Food I Stop Drinking Drinking Alone When It Rains Day After Day Scolding My Kids Fire in the Sixth Month in 408 ce | |
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