Working from Ernest Fenollosa’s notes, Pound turned a handful of Chinese poems, most of them by Rihaku (Li Po), into spare free verse. Soldiers of Shu grub fern-shoots far from home, a river-merchant’s wife writes to her absent husband, and old friends part at the city gate.
A short book with an outsized influence on Imagism and twentieth-century poetry in English. Download the free EPUB.