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In the post-pandemic era, we may appreciate the profound solitude and desolation in Tu Fu’s poetry that still resonates across the span of a millennium. More than an homage to the life of Tu Fu, this work is a meditation on the self, suffering, and our transient beings.
Eliot Weinberger, described by The New York Times as “one of the world’s great essayists,” is a celebrated author, translator, and editor. His books include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, and Angels & Saints, as well as Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei. He is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao, the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, and the general editor of the series “Calligrams: Writings from and on China.” Weinberger’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
Dong Li is a multilingual author who translates from Chinese, English, French, and German. His debut poetry collection, The Orange Tree (University of Chicago Press, 2023), was the inaugural winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize and a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s T. S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize.