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Title

I don't bow to Buddhas : selected poems of Yuan Mei / translated from the Chinese and with an introduction by J.P. Seaton.

Author

Yuan, Mei, 1716-1798.

Publication

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Seaton, Jerome P.

Description

xix, 109 pages; 22 cm

Subject

Yuan, Mei, 1716-1798 > Translations into English

Contents

• Returned from Yang-chou -- In a Boat: Fearsome Weather -- Idleness -- Sleepless -- After the Bath -- Reading -- At Random in My Garden -- Cold Night -- Monk's Place -- Late Gazing, Looking for an Omen as the Sun Goes -- Lesson -- On a Painting of a White-Haired Old Man -- Spring Day -- So Be It -- I Saw It: I Wrote It -- Visiting -- Writing What I've Seen -- A Guest Arrives -- Rolling up the Curtain -- Sleepless -- Cool Hall -- Standing at Night at the Bottom of the Steps -- One page -- Planting Pines -- Propped on a Pillow -- Climbing the Mountain -- Idle Stroll -- Sitting Idle -- Alone -- Rhymes in a Boat -- A Bitter Charge -- Just Done -- Moss -- Sleepless -- Autumn Thoughts -- Sadness -- Painting -- Sitting at Night -- Passing the Grave of a Friend -- Willow Flowers -- Bell -- Egret -- Dog Days -- Night Thought -- Ancient Wall -- Saying Goodbye to a Friend -- Sixty -- Rise and Fall -- Reading -- Wandering Late at Kulin Temple --
• On a Painting of the Yellow Millet Dream -- Just Done -- Just Done -- Just Done -- A Moment -- Temple of the Bamboo Grove -- Conscious of Withering -- Twelfth Moon, Fifteenth Night -- Given to the Monk Ts'an-ch'un at Yung-fu Shrine -- Remembering -- Delirium -- Waning Years: Random Poem -- Waning Years: Random Song -- Late, Walking Alone to a Temple in the Mountain's Cleft -- Laughing at Myself for Lazing Around at West Lake -- Ginseng -- Near Hao-pa -- On the Road to T'ien-t'ai -- Gone Again to Gaze on the Cascade -- Motto -- Old, and Still Traveling -- Cloud Creek -- You Have to Pass "Forty-nine Turns to the Top" Peak Before You Get to Wild Goose Mountain -- Jade Lady Peak -- At the Narrows of the Yung-chia River -- Mountain Travel: Random Song -- Mountain Wandering -- A Quatrain in Six-Character Lines -- At "Be Careful" Bank -- By Accident -- Talking Art -- On Trading My Poems for Autumn Orchids -- The Peak of Lonely Elegance -- P'u-t'o Temple -- Day After Day --
• Whose House -- They Mock Me for Planting Trees at My Age -- Going Down from Fort Tu-hsia to Hen Cave -- Rain Passes -- Leaning on the Railing -- Quatrain -- Something to Ridicule -- Falling Leaves -- Mornings Arise -- On a Painting -- Answering -- Speaking My Mind -- Old, and Traveling -- Sick -- Sick -- Bothered by My Dreams, I Wrote This in Six-Word Lines -- Fifteenth Night of the Second Moon -- Furs in the Sixth Month -- Last Poem: Goodbye to My Garden.

ISBN

1556591209 (pbk.)

LCCN

96051284

OCLC

• 36130709
• ocm36130709

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries