Pity the Dragon: Poems on Chinese Themes

by Brett Rutherford

Chinese emperors, empresses and concubines play a role in the 78 poems in this new collection, but so do delicate porcelains, three-legged frogs, the play of the seasons across China's landscape, and the story of how an American poet became deeply immersed in Chinese culture through an important friendship in his Greenwich Village days. Brett Rutherford's poem cycle, "Emperor Li Yu, A Life in Poems" takes the reader inside the court of Southern Tang...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BW2BSWZY
• ISBN13: 9798378320738
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"