19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

from anthonywillard

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei offers at least twenty versions by various hands of a quatrain by the eighth-century Chinese poet Wang Wei. The author comments, sometimes acidulously, on each. The Mexican Octavio Paz contributes his own perceptive comments (particulary regarding Ezra Pound's...

from woolgathering

I'm taking a workshop on translation next semester, and my professor assigned this book to us ahead of time. I have learned more than I expected to about the difficulties of translation, particularly the problem of ego inherent to a poet's translation of another poet, from this tiniest of books. ...

from woolgathering

I'm taking a workshop on translation next semester, and my professor assigned this book to us ahead of time. I have learned more than I expected to about the difficulties of translation, particularly the problem of ego inherent to a poet's translation of another poet, from this tiniest of books. ...