‘Night atthe Tower,’ ‘Moonlight Night,’ appear courtesy of Copper Canyon Press.Reprinted from Arthur Sze’s The Silk Dragon: Translations from theChinese, translated and introduced by Arthur Sze. © 2001 ArthurSze.
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T’ao Ch’ien
LiCh’ing-chao
Li Ho
Wen I-to
LiPo
Li Shang-yin
Tu Fu
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In an earlier issue, Sam Hamill’s translations of TuFu
Translated by Arthur Sze
Hsin-yi Village
At the tips of branches,
******** hibiscus
opening red calyxes
******** deep in the mountains.
A stream, hut:
******** yet no one.
The flowers bloom
******** and fall, bloom and fall
