Of all the greatest poets that have ever written, which is the least known to American readers? I would join many others who point to Tu Fu (a.k.a. Du Fu). He wrote 16 centuries ago during the Tang ...
Tu Fu, trans. from the Chinese by David Hinton. New Directions, $18.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-81122-838-1 Hinton translated the first full-length verse translation of Tu Fu (712–770 CE) to be ...
The Life of Tu Fu, by Eliot Weinberger. New Directions. 64 pages. $13.95. Translation is an irresistible subject that better writers would do better to resist. It’s too easy to rhapsodize over, ...
In 753 Tu Fu, along with a crowd of others, watched the imperial court—the emperor’s mistress, her sisters, the first minister—publicly celebrate the advent of spring.
Du Fu, conocido además como Tu Fu, (nacido en 712, Gongxian, provincia de Henan, China, murió en 770, en un bote entre Danzhou [ahora Changsha] y Yueyang , Provincia de Hunan), fue un poeta chino, ...