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Love and the Turning: One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese Paperback – 1970

by Kenneth Rexroth (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 140 pages
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing; Fifth or Later Edition edition (1970)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0811201791
  • ISBN-13: 978-0811201797
  • Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn Authority on the subject
By A Customer on April 5, 1999
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Rexroth was first introduced to me by my high school teacher while we were studying Chinese literature. At first, I couldn't quite understand what was so great about Chinese poems, why Li Po and Tu Fu, and many others are so greatly admired. After this, I've come to a much better understanding of Chinese literature in general, and a much greater love for it. I recommend this book to anyone.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA beautiful and enlightening collection of Chinese love poems. If you like Chinese poetry check this book out.
By Joseph J. Truncale TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on February 29, 2016
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I have had a life-long passion for all kinds of poetry; however, my favorite style of poetry has always been the Asian poetry forms such as Haiku and Senryu. I also love the Chinese poems for the same reasons. Many times these kinds of poetry have been called “Zen poetry” because of the brevity of most of these Asian poems. I have numerous volumes of Asian poetry and I recently purchased this wonderful 142 page soft cover book (One hundred more poems from the Chinese Love and the turning year edited by Kenneth Rexroth) from Amazon at a bargain price.

I have tried,(unsuccessfully) to enjoy the long drawn out, boring and often filled with meaningless prose “free verse” poetry of the west, which is popular with university professors and pseudo-intellectuals. This is why I no longer subscribe to the main street poetry journals. Contrast this to the poems of the east, which are almost, always clear, easy to understand and capture a “Zen” moment in time.

This fantastic volume is the second in the series (One hundred poems from the Chinese) and there are so many wonderful poems that this short review cannot do it justice. The beauty of these poems is that almost all of them are short and to the point. They tell so much in a few words. William Shakespeare, who was the master of prose and poetry, has said: “Brevity is the soul of wit.” Most Asian poetry forms follow the famous “Bard’s” advice when it comes to their poetry.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsRexroth' s hobby
By Mcbruce56 on April 12, 2014
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Is our pleasure. The poet was enamored with Asian poetry and transmitted many poems from Chinese and Japanese into exquisite English.
"A good rain knows it's season, " writes Tu Fu, and a good poet knows that a great translation captures the essence as well as the words of the poem.
This is one of three books Rexroth published on these themes. Each one is delicious. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliant poetry, in any language
By khuto on April 6, 2009
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Open the book anywhere, and the poem works for you! This is a tremendous achievement. Eliot Weinberger has called it "possibly his best translation".

Much of it works of course, because of the novelty of the imagery, e.g. this poem by T'ien Hung:
The dew on the garlic
Is gone soon after sunrise.
The dew that evaporated this morning
Will descend again in tomorrow's dawn.
Man dies and is gone,
And when has anybody ever come back?

But to my mind, a question lingers over the authenticity of the "ttranslation" - are these really reflecting the author's voice, or are they transcreations as in Ezra Pound? While Rexroth certainly knew some Chinese, mostly his sources are other translations, including German and French (see [...]
Authenticity is especially problematic because at one point, Rexroth composed the "The love poems of Marichiko", poems he claimed were translated from the work of a young Japanese woman. He has clearly captured the oriental spirit, but still the question lingers. In general, the verisimilitude of translations from Chinese (or other non-European languages) rarely match that of Dante or Homer, say.

But whether they are translations or transcreations, they stand on their own as superb poetry.
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