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The Magpie at Night: The Complete Poems of Li Qingzhao (1084-1151)

By Li Qingzhao, Wendy Chen (Translator)
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By Li Qingzhao, Wendy Chen (Translator)
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A luminous new translation of the greatest woman poet in Chinese history, highlighting Li Qingzhao's iconoclastic verse and showcasing her visionary portrait of the inner workings of the artist’s mind.

The Magpie at Night is a lyrical and searching portrait of the inner life of Li Qingzhao, one of the greatest poets in Chinese literary history. These spare and arresting poems evoke with rare immediacy the quiet and haunting beauty of country life during the Song dynasty; the unseen, restive ...

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