The Life of Tu Fu

By Eliot Weinberger

Book Overview

For over fifty years Eliot Weinberger has been celebrated for his innovative literary and political essays--translated into over thirty languages--as well as his trailblazing translations from the Spanish. In his exquisite new book The Life of Tu Fu, Weinberger has composed a montage of fifty-eight poems that capture the life and times of the great Tang Dynasty poet Tu Fu (712-770 AD). As he writes in a note to the edition, "This is not a translation of individual poems, but a fictional autobiography of Tu Fu derived and adapted from the thoughts, images, and allusions in the poetry." Through lines as penetrating as a classical tanka and as fluid as a mountain stream, themes of endless war and ongoing pandemic surround the wandering life of the ancient Chinese master.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811238059
• ISBN13: 9780811238052
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.4" x 7.4"