Track | Title | Length |
1 | Song of the Bowmen of Shu | 2:24 |
2 | The Beautiful Toilet | 1:08 |
3 | The River Song | 3:19 |
4 | The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter | 2:14 |
5 | Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin | 2:30 |
6 | The Jewel Stair's Grievance | 1:21 |
7 | Lament of the Frontier Guard | 2:04 |
8 | Exile's Letter | 5:54 |
9 | Four Poems of Departure | 1:26 |
10 | The City of Choan | 1:17 |
11 | South-Folk in Cold Country | 1:27 |
12 | Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku | 1:32 |
13 | A Ballad of the Mulberry Tree | 1:30 |
14 | Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu | 2:19 |
15 | To Em-Mei's : The Unmoving Cloud | 2:30 |
16 | The Seafarer | 7:07 |
17 | The Alchemist | 4:41 |
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Book Coordinator: Alan Davis Drake
Meta Coordinator: Alan Davis Drake
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Artwork
Cover: A River Scene in China, 1902, from Young Folk's Library, A Book of Famous Explorers, Marco Polo in the East, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Inset: Cover of the first edition of Cathay.
Inset: Ezra Pound passport photo, 1919.
The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/interpretations from notebooks written by the Japanese scholar Ernest Fenollosa. Pound, not knowing any Chinese or Japanese at all, promptly created a new and somewhat complex style of translation, as he had done with words from several other languages. The Cathay poems are primarily written by the Chinese poet Li Po, referred to throughout these translations as Rihaku, the Japanese form of his name. These poems came to have a profound influence on 20th Century poetry, spawning, among other things, the Imagist movement, and helped in the generation of widespread interest in Asian literature and thought. Also included in this collection are two poems from Pound’s 1912 collection Ripostes. “The Seafarer” is another of Pound’s experiments in translation, this one from the Anglo-Saxon. (Summary by Alan Davis-Drake)
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0687700170266 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0687700170273 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case, CD jacket, CD security sleeve |
Author | Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) |
Year | 1915 |
Recording | |
Read by | Alan Davis Drake |
Length | 36 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
Cathay
- Author: Ezra Pound
- Product Code: DB-7012
- Availability: In Stock
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