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The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton

by Tu Fu

Private life and public upheaval in Tu Fu’s poetry

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    Shortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize

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Private life and public upheaval in Tu Fu’s poetry

This expanded collection, translated by David Hinton, brings together poems written across the worlds of ordinary experience, philosophical reflection, and civil-war upheaval. The publisher description notes that many of Tu Fu’s best-known poems date from the final decade of his life, when he was an impoverished refugee. That context gives the collection a historical dimension, while the poems’ personal perspective connects broad social crisis with individual life. The book presents Tu Fu’s work as ranging from simplicity to complexity and from intimate observation to engagement with a society consumed by war.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers exploring classical Chinese poetry in translation
  • Readers interested in poetry shaped by war, displacement, and social change
  • Readers seeking poetry that joins personal reflection with historical context

Themes

Classical Chinese poetryCivil war and displacementEveryday life and historical upheavalPhilosophical reflectionSocial engagement

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Book overview

Tu Fu (712-770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton's original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in America. Most of Tu Fu's best poems were written in the last decade of his life, as an impoverished refugee fleeing the devastation of civil war. In the midst of these challenges, his always personal poems manage to combine a remarkable range of possibilities: elegant simplicity and great complexity, everyday life and grand historical drama, private philosophical depth and social engagement in a world consumed by war. Through it all, his is a wisdom that can only be called elemental, and his poems sound remarkably contemporary.
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