{"product_id":"dancing-with-the-dead","title":"Dancing with the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn essential collection from the leading figure of Chinese poetry translation, presenting work of insight, humor, and musicality that continues to resonates across thousands of years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\u003eand Lao-Tzu's\u003ci\u003e Daodejing\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\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\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\u003cp\u003e \"our luggage is full of river travel poems  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emay we ride forth together again.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Wei Yingwu\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Pine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44816588472362,"sku":"9781556596452","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/dancing-with-the-dead-4616341.jpg?v=1789040467","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/dancing-with-the-dead","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}