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Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom (Copper Canyon Classics),Used
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"It is one of the very first art books which helped artists develop the aptitude for seeing the inner essence of various natural phenomena."Shambhala Sun"Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom could fit neatly into any number of contemporarysounding categories: hybrid text, art book, lyric essay, etc. It is a book that relies on interdependence of image and text, of history and the present, of evocation and concrete image."The Rumpus"Red Pine introduces Western readers to both the text itself and the traditions it has inherited."Virginia Quarterly Review"All lovers of Asian poetry, mysterious history, divine drawing, and plum blossoms will enjoy this book. Thank you once again, Red Pine, for deep translation."Michael McClureThrough a series of brief fourlined poems and illustrations, Sung Pojen aims at training artistic perception: how to truly see a plum blossom. First published in AD 1238, Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom is considered the world's earliestknown printed art books. This bilingual edition contains the one hundred woodblock prints from the 1238 edition, calligraphic Chinese poems, and Red Pine's graceful translations and illuminating commentaries."Tiger Tracks"winter wind bends dry grassflicks its tail along the ridgefearful force on the loosedon't try to braid old whiskersRed Pine's commentary: "The Chinese liken the north wind that blows down from Siberia in winter to a roaring tiger. China is home to both the Siberian and the South China tigers. While both are on the verge of extinction, the small South China tiger still appears as far north as the Chungnan Mountains, where hermits have shown me their tracks."Sung Pojen was a Chinese poet of the thirteenth century.Red Pine (a.k.a. Bill Porter) is one of the world's foremost translators of Chinese poetry and religious texts. His published translations include The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Laotzu's Taoteching, and Poems of the Masters. He lives near Seattle, Washington.
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