Fine contemporary translations of one of the great poets of the T'ang dynasty.

David Hinton, whose much-acclaimed translations of Li Po and Tu Fu have become classics, now completes the triumvirate of China's greatest poets with The Select

A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print

There is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: "Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao." He moved through this world with an unearthly