Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow: Poems

by Wanli Yang, Jonathan Chaves, Yang Wang-Li

Renders into colloquial English selected lyrics of the twelfth-century Chinese master poet whose direct, unadorned diction reflected his championship of stylistic individuality

128 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1975

Reviews

[meg · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel like this translation could have been better. I bet there's more there than comes out in this version.

Excerpt of fave poem:
"The river is clear and calm ;
a fast rain falls in the gorge.
At midnight the cold, splashing sound begins,
like thousands of pearls spilling onto a glass plate,
each drop penetrating the bone."