A review by blueyorkie
Cathay by Zhaoming Qian, Ezra Pound

5.0

In April 1915, Cathay was essentially a book of war, using Fenollosa's notes to provide a system of parallels and a structure of speech. Its exiled archers, abandoned women, devastated dynasties, departures to distant places, lonely border guards, and glories remembered from afar, cherished memories. They were selected from the wide variety of notebooks for a sensitivity susceptible to the torn Belgium and tormented London. [Cathay's poems] say, as much of Pound's work says, all of this happened before and always continues to happen.

Introduction by Gualter Cunha