Comments on: THE SELECTED POEMS OF LI PO translated by David Hinton http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2010/02/selected-poems-li-po-translated-david-hinton/ Poetry for Everyone. Wed, 23 May 2012 21:21:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: john guzlowski http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2010/02/selected-poems-li-po-translated-david-hinton/#comment-346 john guzlowski Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:51:55 +0000 http://rattle.com/blog/?p=3043#comment-346 Michael, super review. You do what all reviews should do. You look carefully and intelligently at a book, guiding the reader and the work's author to a fuller understanding of the subject. Thanks. By the way, Mary Bast asks for a site with multiple translations. I recommend http://www.chinapage.com/poem/wangwei/wangwei-trs.html Michael, super review. You do what all reviews should do. You look carefully and intelligently at a book, guiding the reader and the work’s author to a fuller understanding of the subject. Thanks.

By the way, Mary Bast asks for a site with multiple translations. I recommend http://www.chinapage.com/poem/wangwei/wangwei-trs.html

]]> By: Mary Bast http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2010/02/selected-poems-li-po-translated-david-hinton/#comment-345 Mary Bast Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:40:16 +0000 http://rattle.com/blog/?p=3043#comment-345 Thank you for the clarity of your review and for the alternate translations you suggest, which help me, too, imagine the original. I've often wished for several translations of poems in languages I don't know, so I can compare and glean the poet's intent. For example, http://wayist.org/ttc%20compared/indexchp.htm compares translations of the Tao. I once found a similar site for Stéphane Mallarmé. Thank you for the clarity of your review and for the alternate translations you suggest, which help me, too, imagine the original. I’ve often wished for several translations of poems in languages I don’t know, so I can compare and glean the poet’s intent. For example, http://wayist.org/ttc%20compared/indexchp.htm compares translations of the Tao. I once found a similar site for Stéphane Mallarmé.

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