Review: A good introduction
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2014
This is my first introduction to Chinese style of poetry and what an introduction to this style of poetry.The poet first lays out his views on poetry before launching into a series of poems about the Qu Yuan, whom I learnt is the first great poet of China and from this set of poems you can understand why.Being someone who lives next to the sea I have always appreciative of anything that invokes images of the ever shifting sea from its wildness to the abuses we inflict on it and there are many thought provoking poems to consider here.The notes attached to helped the interpretation and my understanding of the poems, an excellent well written book of poems which I enjoyed and will revisit on rainy days.