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dougk 's review for:
Under Heaven
by Guy Gavriel Kay
loosely based on events during the Tang dynasty in China, excellent.
So often novels with poets in them, have bits of poetry that are just terrible, since novelists usually aren't good poets. In this case the poetry though in English obviously losing all the subtleties and complex allusions of the original Chinese, compares well to what I've read in translations of the poets of that time.
One of those poets Du Fu wrote in 758, sentiments I could echo today,
I am about to scream madly in the office,
Especially when they bring more papers to pile higher on my desk.
— from "Early Autumn, Miserable Heat, Papers Piling Up" (Hung translation).[23]
So often novels with poets in them, have bits of poetry that are just terrible, since novelists usually aren't good poets. In this case the poetry though in English obviously losing all the subtleties and complex allusions of the original Chinese, compares well to what I've read in translations of the poets of that time.
One of those poets Du Fu wrote in 758, sentiments I could echo today,
I am about to scream madly in the office,
Especially when they bring more papers to pile higher on my desk.
— from "Early Autumn, Miserable Heat, Papers Piling Up" (Hung translation).[23]