{"product_id":"dancing-with-the-dead-by-red-pine-9781556596452","title":"Dancing with the Dead","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn essential collection from the leading figure of Chinese poetry translation, presenting work of insight, humour, and musicality that continues to resonate across thousands of years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRed Pine is one of the world's finest translators of Chinese poetic and religious texts. His new anthology, \u003ci\u003eDancing with the Dead: The Essential Red Pine\u003c\/i\u003e, gathers over thirty voices from the ancient Chinese past, including Buddhist poets Cold Mountain (Hanshan) and Stonehouse (Shiwu), as well as Tang-dynasty luminaries Wei Yingwu and Liu Zongyuan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDancing with the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e also includes translations from such religious texts as Puming's \u003ci\u003eOxherding Pictures and Verses\u003c\/i\u003e and Lao-Tzu's \u003ci\u003eDaodejing\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as poems and woodblock illustrations from Su Po-Jen's \u003ci\u003eGuide to Capturing a Plum Blossom\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the world's first printed books of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the book, poems are accompanied by footnotes providing historical context, and each section includes a new and illuminating introduction chronicling Red Pine's relationship to the poet—discovery, travel, scholarship. \u003ci\u003eDancing with the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a book, it is a journey: part travel essay, part road map, part guided meditation. It is a history translated in poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor Red Pine, \"translating the words in a Chinese poem isn't that hard, but finding the spirit that inspired those words, the music of the heart, and asking it to inspire [his heart], that is how, and why, [he] translates.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"our luggage is full of river travel poems \u003cbr\u003e may we ride forth together again.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e— Wei Yingwu\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486013997292,"sku":"9781556596452","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/83d1bc9702447a89e378788be66e6342.jpg?v=1775784087","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/dancing-with-the-dead-by-red-pine-9781556596452","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}