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Short Conversations with Poets: Dong Li

There is so much beyond words. There are actually no adequate words for the full complexity of human feeling, for the arcane details of a distant m...

It’s one of the reasons that poetry often arrives in fragments, offering glimpses and snippets: Not only because memory is always an incomplete invention, but also because a poet might wish to dispense with the crude reductivities of plot and setup. tang dynasty poet zhang ji has been dead for a long time ousted by his emperor and wasted floated along yangtze and moored stumbled on rock slates by shore … If the unexplained calligraphy by Xu Jing suggests a poetic gesture, then the handwritten lines are obliquely condensed translations that point toward the emerging form.

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