The Clouds Float North: The Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji

by Yu Xuanji

"Outside of her remarkable poems, we know next to nothing about Yu Xuanji," David Young writes. "She was born in 844 and died in 868, at the age of twenty-four, condemned to death for the murder of her maid...We owe the survival of her forty-nine poems to the ancient Chinese anthologists' urge to be complete."

The poems gathered in this bilingual (Chinese/English) edition will be read again and again for their beauty. The works preserve...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819563447
• ISBN13: 9780819563446
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

She's Amazing!

Her story is touching and the fact that she died so young might suggest that this poet is merely a curiosity in the rich poetic context of the late Tang. But in fact, as these sensitive and sometimes brilliant translations demonstrate, she was as good as any of her contemporaries, a poet of great range and rare sensibility. With its fine introduction, careful notes, inclusion of the originals and beautiful cover, this is a book to own and treasure, mainly for its astonishing poems!