‘Night at the Tower,’ ‘Moonlight Night,’ appear courtesy of Copper Canyon Press. Reprinted from Arthur Sze’s The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese, translated and introduced by Arthur Sze. © 2001 Arthur Sze.
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To read Arthur Sze’s translations of
T’ao Ch’ien
Li Ch’ing-chao
Li Ho
Wen I-to
Li Po
Li Shang-yin
Tu Fu
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Read our interview with Arthur Sze in this issue.
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Read a selection of Sze’s poetry in an earlier issue.
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In an earlier issue, Sam Hamill’s translations of Tu Fu
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
