Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past by Red Pine, Bill Porter

Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past

Red Pine, Bill Porter

398 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction poetry travel adventurous informative medium-paced
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Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past by Red Pine, Bill Porter is a captivating read for anyone who has ever been enchanted by the power of poetry, the allure of travel, and the beauty of cultural exploration, as it whisks readers away on a stirring journey through China's rich literary heritage, where the boundaries between past and present, East and West, dissolve in the face of timeless verse.

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To pay homage to China's greatest poets, renowned translator Bill Porter—who is also known by his Chinese name "Red Pine"—traveled throughout China visiting dozens of poets' graves and performing idiosyncratic rituals that featured Kentucky bourbo...

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