In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century Trans. By Wong May
PBS Spring Translation Choice 2022 SJ Fowler for the ear

for the ear

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on arrival I was treated like the Queen Mother

less the lyric than the epylion

In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century Trans. By Wong May <br> <b> PBS Spring Translation Choice 2022</b> SJ Fowler for the earChinese poetry is unique in world literature in that it was written for the best part of 3,000 years by exiles, and Chinese history can be read as a matter of course in the words of poets. In this collection from the Tang Dynasty are poems of war and peace, flight and refuge but above all they are plain spoken, everyday poems; classics that are everyday timeless, a poetry conceived "to teach the least and the most, the literacy of the heart in a