Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

Eliot Weinberger

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

Eliot Weinberger

64 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction poetry
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The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interp...

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