{"product_id":"the-collected-poems-of-li-he-isbn-9789629966607","title":"The Collected Poems of Li He","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive collection of works by one of the Tang Dynasty's most eccentric (and badly-behaved) poets, now back in print for the first time in decades.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLi He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang dynasty. He began writing at  the age of seven and died at twenty-six from alcoholism or, according to  a later commentator, “sexual dissipation,” or both. An obscure and  unsuccessful relative of the imperial family, he would set out at dawn  on horseback, pause, write a poem, and toss the paper away. A servant  boy followed him to collect these scraps in a tapestry bag.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Long considered far too extravagant and weird for Chinese taste, Li He  was virtually excluded from the poetic canon until the mid-twentieth  century. Today, as the translator and scholar Anne M. Birrell, writes,  “Of all the Tang poets, even of all Chinese poets, he best speaks for  our disconcerting times.” Modern critics have compared him to Rimbaud,  Baudelaire, Keats, and Trakl.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Li He \u003c\/i\u003eis  the only comprehensive selection of his surviving work (most of his  poems were reputedly burned by his cousin after his death, for the honor  of the family), rendered here in crystalline translations by the noted  scholar J. D. Frodsham.“Frodsham has...developed aspects of Li He’s biography, generally presenting them more succinctly...Certainly, Professor Frodsham’s finely wrought translation of Li He remains the most cultured of those recent attempts to render into English this intractable, culture-bound Chinese poet.”—Anne M. Birrell, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLi He\u003c\/b\u003e (790–816) was a poet of the late Tang dynasty. “Strange by any standards,” according to A. C. Graham, “he offended the conventionality of later taste by his individuality and...by his morbidity and violence.” \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJ. D. Frodsham\u003c\/b\u003e is an emeritus professor of English and comparative literature at Murdoch University, Australia. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Murmuring Stream: The Life and Works of Hsieh Ling-Yuan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Anthology of Chinese Verse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe First Chinese Embassy to the West\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Rouzer\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Minnesota. He is most recently the author of \u003ci\u003eOn Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2015).","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304353878245,"sku":"NP9789629966607","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9789629966607.jpg?v=1767738732","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-collected-poems-of-li-he-isbn-9789629966607","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}