Complete Poems

Product Description

The Complete Poems of Li Ch’ing-chao (1084-c. 1151) brings together for the first time in English translation all the surviving verse of China’s greatest woman poet. Written during the final years of the Sung Dynasty, with its political intrigues and collapse in the face of the Tatar invasions, her poems reveal an imaginative freshness, sensuous imagery, and satirical spirit often at odds with the decadent Confucian code of the day.

Review

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
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About the Author

Poet-essayist 
Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) was a high-school dropout, disillusioned ex-Communist, pacifist, anarchist, rock-climber, critic and translator, mentor, Catholic-Buddhist spiritualist and a prominent figure of San Francisco’s Beat scene. He is regarded as a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and is among the first American poets to explore traditional Japanese forms such as the haiku.