Li Ching-Chao: Complete Poems (Paperback)

~ Ching-Chao Li (Author), Kenneth Rexroth (Translator), Ling Chung (Translator) "I remember in Hsi T'ing All the many times We got lost in the sunset, Happy with wine, And could not find our way back..." (more)
Key Phrases: plum blossoms, Chao T'ing-chih, Ts'ai Ching, Ch'ing Chou (more...)

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At A Poetry Party I Am Given The Rhyme Chih
Banana Trees
The Beauty Of White Chrysanthemums
Cassia Flowers
Cassia Flowers
Cassia Flowers
The Day Of Cold Food
Dream
Fading Plum Blossoms
Farewell Letter To My Sister Sent From An Inn At Lo Ch'ang
I Gave A Party To My Relatives On The Day Of Purification
I Smell The Fragrance Of Withered Plum Blossoms By My Pillow
In The Emperor's Chamber
Joy Of Wine
The Magnolia Flower
A Morning Dream
Ninth Day, Ninth Month
On History
On Plum Blossoms
On Spring
Our Boat Starts At Night From The Beach Of Yen Kuang
Peonies
Picking Mulberries
Plum Blossoms
Plum Blossoms
Poems Dedicated To Lord Han, The Minister Of The Council
Poems On Yuen Chieh's Ode To The Restoration Of T'ang
Red Plum Blossoms
Remorse
A Satire On The Lords Who Crossed The Yangtse In Flight
Sentiment
A Song Of Departure
Sorrow Of Departure
Spring Ends
Spring Ends
Spring Ends, I
Spring Ends, Ii
Spring Fades
Spring In The Women's Quarter
Thoughts From The Women's Quarter
Thoughts From The Women's Quarter
Thoughts From The Women's Quarter
Thoughts From The Women's Quarters
To An Imperial Lady
To The Empress
To The Imperial Concubine
To The Tune A Song Of The South
To The Tune Clear Peace Happiness
To The Tune Everlasting Joy
To The Tune Happiness Approaches
To The Tune Immortals On The River Bank
To The Tune Partridge Sky
To The Tune The Bodhisattva's Headdress
To The Tune The Bodhisattva's Headdress
To The Tune The Perfumed Garden
To The Tune The Silk Washing Brook
To The Tune You Move In Fragrance
Two Springs
Watching Lotuses
A Weary Song To A Slow Sad Tune
When The Plums By The Back Pavilion Bloomed
Written By Chance
Written On Climbing Eight Poems Tower
Written On The Seventh Day Of The Seventh Month
The Wu-t'ung Tree
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 118 pages
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation (February 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811207455
• ISBN-13: 978-0811207454
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensual plum blossoms everywhere!, August 9, 2001

By	DONALD G. FOX "Santee Sioux" (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book in 1983 and it has stayed in my permanent collection of books. It is some of the most sensuous and vibrant poetry I have ever come upon. The poetry conveys the despair, hope and longing that the poet lives with in her life of waiting for love while at court. "The Wu-Tung Tree" is one of the most beautiful poems that I know. The biography of Li Ching-Chao is not only informative, but nicely written.and the notes to the poems give the reader a greater sense of some of the symbolism and cultural significance of tunes and imagery.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great poet, January 3, 2007

By	Eduardo Castillo Jr. (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Li Qingzhao was a supremely talented poet of the Sung dynasty period of China. She broke taboos concerning women writers by writing openly and creatively over a wide range of topics, both personal and social. She is revered in China today as being perhaps the greatest woman poet in Chinese history. It is enchanting to read her complete works and discover her recurring use of motifs and symbolism. Her voice is very feminine and very passionate but also very humble. It gives a glimpse of how women were expected to behave in Confucian society.

5.0 out of 5 stars Li Ching-Chao - poet, September 12, 2009

By	Erik C. Pihl "Readerman" (Sacramento, Ca.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This is an outstanding collections of translations from the Chinese by a well-known poet (Kenneth Rexroth) and (in the U.S. at least) a lesser-known Chinese poet: Ling Chung. At the end of the collection there is a good, if brief, biography of Li by Ling Chung.

The poems read well in English even though some of them have a definite "Rexroth feel" to them. This is not meant to take anything away from the translations or the translators. Anyone who makes the attempt to translate from one incomensurate language (English) to another (Chinese) has his/her work cut out for them.

This small book certainly has a place in the library of anyone who has even a passing interest in Asian poetry in general and Chinese poetry in particular.