Julie Landau is a writer, translator, critic, and poet, who has focused on bringing the timeless thoughts, emotions, and imagery of ancient Chinese Poetry to English readers. Her translations have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her book Beyond Spring: Tz’u Poems of the Sung Dynasty is part of the Columbia University Translations from the Asian Classics series. She is currently finishing up her new project For a Snail Horn of Fame: Songs of Liu Yong, which for the first time brings the work of Liu Yong, the black sheep of literati poets, to an English speaking audience.
As a translator she tries to convey the emotional essence of each lyric. (read more . . . )
For a Snail Horn of Fame: The Songs of Liu Yong
In her new project, For a Snail Horn of Fame, Julie Landau brings the voice, lyrics, and legend of the tenth century “songwriter” Liu Yong to an English speaking audience. Liu, the outsider among classical Chinese literati poets and still a controversial figure today, was the central force in transforming Chinese poetry for the ensuing millennium. His lyrics take on love, desire, failure, disappointment, age, disillusion, and regret in a timeless manner with emotions and imagery that are as poignant now as they were when they were written. (read more. . . )
Beyond Spring: Tz’u Poems Of The Sung Dynasty
Beyond Spring includes one hundred and fifty translations from the golden age of ci poetry in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries. It includes best-known ci poems by fifteen of the most celebrated poets of the period, including a king who lost his country, an emperor who lost his empire, and a woman who lost everything. . . (read more. . .)
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