A bit of doggerel from the late-Yuan poet Yang Jingxian: 'Small as can be, / The minuscule flea / Can nimbly dance / (With a needle-sharp bite) / From the nape of the neck to the waist of the pants...'
I wonder if amatory persuasion is found in Chinese poetry? The poem made me think of Donne. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46467/the-flea
I really enjoy Chinese poems in translation. Lu Tung Ping, Sun Buer. Taoist poets are amazing.
Wonderful translation, as always.
I think you were channeling both Ted Hughes and Ogden Nash ('The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk') at the same time.
Can't wait.
I wonder if amatory persuasion is found in Chinese poetry? The poem made me think of Donne. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46467/the-flea
I really enjoy Chinese poems in translation. Lu Tung Ping, Sun Buer. Taoist poets are amazing.
Wonderful translation, as always.
I think you were channeling both Ted Hughes and Ogden Nash ('The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk') at the same time.
Can't wait.