Translation Zine 2023

16 classical Chinese poems in translation and 2 original poems by me.

Excerpts:

I’m the kind of freak who obsesses over the perfect line
if my words don’t stun them, I won’t rest until I’m dead

Du Fu, “A short post: The river was raging like the ocean”

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pity this sickness of living things:
they dine and taste, and are they ever satisfied?

Hanshan (Cold Mountain), untitled

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when the magpies draw the star bridge
  only then can you meet each year
your loss and longing must be bottomless

dear cowherd, dear weaver
  are you still waiting on either side?
just now there was sun
  no, it was rain
    no, wind

Li Qingzhao, “Qixi Festival”

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