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Li Po (Advertisement 701-762) resided in T'ang Dynasty China, but his impact has spanned the centuries: the 100 % pure lyricism of his poems has awed visitors in China and Japan for over a millennium, and through Ezra Pound's translations, Li Po became central to the modernist trend in the Western. His work is suffused with Taoism and Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism, but these seem to be not so much spiritual affects as the inborn form of his life. There's a set-phrase in Chinese discussing the sensation of Li Po: "Winds of the immortals, bone fragments of the Tao." He moved through this world with an unearthly independence from connection, and at the same time belonged profoundly to the earth and its procedure for change. However ethereal in heart, his poems remain grounded in the every day experience most of us share. He composed 1,200 years back, half of a world away, however in his poems we see the world transformed. Legendary friends in eighth-century T'ang China, Li Po and Tu Fu are typically celebrated as the two best poets in the Chinese cannon. David Hinton's translation of Li Po's poems is no less an accomplishment than his critically acclaimed The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, also released by New Directions. By reflecting the ambiguity and density of the initial, Hinton is constantly on the create compelling English poems that change our conception of Chinese poetry.
