The Poetic Garden of Liu Zongyuan by Liu Zongyuan Paperback Book 9781646052172

Liu Zongyuans remarkable poetry reflects the complex experience of political exile and observes the natural world of his new home in South China with a caring eye The Poetic Garden of Liu Zongyuan presents poems by the Tang Dynasty cofounder of the Classical Prose Movement written on the Chinese empires southern margins In these remarkable pieces Liu intertwines South Chinas landscapes and plantssuch as scarlet canna banyan and white myoga gingerwith reflections on honor duty banishment and belonging in ways unique in the history of Chinese poetry The two translators Nathaniel DoltonThornton and Yu Yuanyuan one American and one Chinese preserve and showcase the singular beauty of Lius poetic garden for the Englishspeaking world