TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chiao,Meng
AU  - Hinton,David
TI  - The Late Poems of Meng Chiao
T2  - The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
SN  - 9780691217727
AV  - PL2677.M4 A24 1996eb
U1  - 895.1/13 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - POETRY / Asian / Chinese
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Autumn Thoughts
KW  - Bamboo ticking
KW  - Blossom
KW  - Calamity
KW  - Chuang Tzu
KW  - Cold Creek
KW  - Crickets
KW  - Death-owls
KW  - Dragons
KW  - Frost rinsing
KW  - Graveyard winds
KW  - Grown bright
KW  - Invariably
KW  - Lo River
KW  - Lo-yang hilltops
KW  - Meng Chiao
KW  - Merrill Foundation
KW  - Moonlight
KW  - Pale ice
KW  - Riverbanks
KW  - Rock
KW  - Water snakes
KW  - Way flowing
KW  - Windblown
KW  - ancient sage
KW  - bequeathed
KW  - black side
KW  - dead froze
KW  - hungrily
KW  - lacquer black
KW  - shimmering dream
KW  - wastelands
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; MOURNING LU YIN --; COLD CREEK --; LAMENTS OF THE GORGES --; APRICOTS DIED YOUNG --; HEARTSONG --; AUTUMN THOUGHTS --; Notes --; Finding List --; Further Reading; restricted access
N2  - Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.D. 751--814) developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. With the T'ang Dynasty crumbling, Meng's later work employed surrealist and symbolist techniques as it turned to a deep introspection. This is truly major work-- work that may be the most radical in the Chinese tradition. And though written more than a thousand years ago, it is remarkably fresh and contemporary. But, in spite of Meng's significance, this is the first volume of his poetry to appear in English. Until the age of forty, Meng Chiao lived as a poet-recluse associated with Ch'an (Zen) poet-monks in south China. He then embarked on a rather unsuccessful career as a government official. Throughout this time, his poetry was decidedly mediocre, conventional verse inevitably undone by his penchant for the strange and surprising. After his retirement, Meng developed the innovative poetry translated in this book. His late work is singular not only for its bleak introspection and "avant-garde" methods, but also for its dimensions: in a tradition typified by the short lyric poem, this work is made up entirely of large poetic sequences
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