Name: Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past, Paperback/Bill Porter
Brand: Copper Canyon Press
Price: 159.99 RON
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"A travel writer with a cult following.""The New York Times " "There are very few westerners who could successfully cover so much territory in China, but Porter pulls it off. "Finding Them Gone" uniquely draws upon his parallel careers as a translator and a travel writer in ways that his previous books have not. A lifetime devoted to understanding Chinese culture and spirituality blossoms within its pages to create something truly rare.""The Los Angeles Book Review" A road trip with poetryif that sounds like your kind of thing, then this is the book for you. "That s China Magazine" To pay homage to China's greatest poets, renowned translator Bill Porterwho is also known by his Chinese name "Red Pine"traveled throughout China visiting dozens of poets' graves and performing idiosyncratic rituals that featured Kentucky bourbon and reading poems aloud to the spirits. Combining travelogue, translations, history, and personal stories, this intimate and fast-paced tour of modern China celebrates inspirational landscapes and presents translations of classical poems, many of which have never before been translated into English. Porter is a former radio commentator based in Hong Kong who specialized in travelogues. As such, he is an entertaining storyteller who is deeply knowledgeable about Chinese culture, both ancient and modern, who brings readers" into "the journeyfrom standing at the edge of the trash pit that used to be Tu Mu's grave to sitting in Han Shan's cave where the Buddhi