Help with Chinese poetry recs?

Sep 11, 2019 16:53

So I have a character in a book who wants to write poetry, only she's a native Mandarin speaker who grew up from birth to 13 somewhere not far from Shanghai ( Read more... )

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phaballa September 11 2019, 16:40:57 UTC
For once, I have something to contribute! I'm faculty coordinator for a University English department and one of my poetry faculty, Lisa Olstein, who went up for promotion a few years ago had several of her poems translated into Chinese by PoetrySky: http://www.poetrysky.com/index.html
It looks like they stopped publishing new issues of the journal in 2015ish, but they're all available for free on that site. And I believe the translations go both ways--English to Chinese, and Chinese to English, depending on the source materials, obviously.

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black_bird_777 September 11 2019, 16:47:36 UTC
Kenneth Rexroth One Hundred Poems from the Chinese ???

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Chinese poetry ext_5484882 August 10 2020, 04:58:52 UTC
Poetically, anything produced after Song dynasty is considered as garbage more or less, especially the modern stuff ( ... )

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