The Selected Poems of Po Chü-I

New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1999. Later printing. Octavo in wraps, 201 pp; 23 cm Near fine(+); faint crease to cover; pages bright, crisp, and clean; binding tight . Paperback. ISBN: 9780811214124

Translated bby David Hinton | Po Chu-i (772-846 C.E.) is the quintessential Chinese poet. For although clear thought and depth of wisdom inform the work of all major Chinese poets (as opposed to the complexity and virtuosity often valued in the West), Po makes clarity itself his particular vision. | Contents: Map. Early Poems: 794-815 (C.E.). Exile: 815-820. Middle Poems: 820-829. Late Poems: 829-846.