Plum Blossom Wine: Poems by Li Qingzhao
Translated by Sibyl James and Kang Xuepei
$18.00 Available September 10, 2024
Plum Blossom Wine, poems by Song dynasty poet Li Qingzhao translated by Sibyl James and Kang Xuepei, gives voice to an important female Chinese poet writing in a time when literature was dominated by men. James and Kang bring a contemporary sensibility to their translations, reading Li not as scholars but as modern women. They offer the reader an intimate glimpse into Li’s life, letting these poems full of wistful longing resonate across the centuries like a temple bell just rung.
“What I love about these luminous and economical English translations is the way translators Sibyl James and Kang Xuepei remove the walls of time and cultural difference to give us a startling immediacy. Li’s wistful, melancholy poems could have been written yesterday. Thanks to the skill of James and Kang, Li’s poems sing to us still.” —Ed Harkness, author of The Law of the Unforeseen
$18.00 ISBN 979-8-98837-019-2 Preorders available August 1, 2024.