{"product_id":"dancing-with-the-dead-red-pine-9781556596452","title":"Dancing with the Dead: The Essential Red Pine Translations","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn essential collection from the leading figure of Chinese poetry translation, presenting work of insight, humor, and musicality that continues to resonates across thousands of years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRed Pine is one of the world's finest translators of Chinese poetic and religious texts. His new anthology, \u003ci\u003eDancing with the Dead: The Essential Red Pine\u003c\/i\u003e, gathers over thirty voices from the ancient Chinese past-including Buddhist poets Cold Mountain (Hanshan) and Stonehouse (Shiwu), as well as Tang-dynasty luminaries Wei Yingwu and Liu Zongyuan.\u003ci\u003eDancing with the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e also includes translations from such religious texts as Puming's \u003ci\u003eOxherding Pictures and Verses \u003c\/i\u003eand Lao-Tzu's\u003ci\u003e Daodejing\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as poems and woodblock illustrations from Su Po-Jen's \u003ci\u003eGuide to Capturing a Plum Blossom\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the world's first printed books of art.  Throughout the book, poems are accompanied by footnotes providing historical context, and each section includes a new and illuminating introduction chronicling Red Pine's relationship to the poet--discovery, travel, scholarship. \u003ci\u003eDancing With The Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a book, it is a journey: part travel essay, part road map, part guided meditation. It is a history translated in poem. For Red Pine, \"translating the words in a Chinese poem isn't that hard, but finding the spirit that inspired those words, the music of the heart, and asking it to inspire [his heart], that is how, and why, [he] translates.\"  \"our luggage is full of river travel poems  may we ride forth together again.\" - Wei Yingwu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Red Pine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1556596456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556596452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 5.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Red Pine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44076273467647,"sku":"9781556596452","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_482aea40-124d-4562-b148-b8d481f366af.jpg?v=1685464091","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dancing-with-the-dead-red-pine-9781556596452","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}