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Welcome to the Chinese Poetry Books section of Fine Books.  Here are excellent Chinese poetry books filled with exquisite poems by revered authors.

 

1. The Clouds Should Know Me by Now : Buddhist Poet Monks of China ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Red Pine(Editor), et al / Publishers' Group West / November 1998
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2. The Selected Poems of Li Po ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Li Po, et al / New Directions / May 1996
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3. Maples in the Mist : Poems for Children from the Tang Dynasty ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Minfong Ho(Editor), et al / Lothrop Lee & Shepard / September 1996
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4. Chinese Poetry : An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Wai-Lim Yip(Editor) / Duke Univ Pr (Txt) / June 1997
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5. The Art of Writing : Teachings of the Chinese Masters ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Tony Barnstone(Editor), et al / Shambhala Pubns / May 1996
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6. The Book of Songs ~ Usually ships in 1-2 weeks

Arthur Waley(Translator), Joseph R. Allen (Editor) / Grove Press / September 1996
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7. Sunflower Splendor : Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Wu-Chi Liu(Editor), Irving Yucheng Lo (Editor) / Indiana Univ Pr / November 1990
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8. Island : Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Him Mark Lai, et al / University of Washington Press / September 1991
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9. One Hundred Poems from the Chinese ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Kenneth Rexroth(Translator) / W.W. Norton & Company / June 1971
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10. Penguin Book of Zen Poetry ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto (Editor) / Penguin USA (Paper) / April 1988
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11. Poetry of Enlightenment : Poems by Ancient Ch'an Masters ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Master Sheng-Yen(Editor) / Dharma Drum Pubns / August 1989
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12. One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese : Love and the Turning Year ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Kenneth Rexroth(Compiler) / W.W. Norton & Company / October 1970
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13. I Don't Bow to Buddhas : Selected Poems of Yuan Mei ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Mei Yuan, et al / Copper Canyon Pr / April 1997
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14. Selected Poems of Su Tung-P'O ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Su Tung-P'O, Burton Watson (Translator) / Copper Canyon Pr / July 1994
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15. The Peony Pavilion = Mudan Ting ~ Back Ordered

Hsien-Tsu T'Ang, et al / Indiana Univ Pr / December 1980
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16. The Zen Works of Stonehouse : Poems and Talks of a Fourteenth-Century Chinese Hermit ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Ch'Ing-Hung, et al / Mercury House / April 1999
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17. The End of the Chinese 'Middle Ages' : Essays in Mid-Tang Literary Culture ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Stephen Owen / Stanford Univ Pr / October 1996
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18. Maples in the Mist : Children's Poems from the Tang Dynasty ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Minfong Ho(Translator), et al / Lothrop Lee & Shepard / September 1996
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19. Endless River : Li Po and Tu Fu : A Friendship in Poetry ~ Publisher Out Of Stock

Sam Hamill(Translator), et al / Weatherhill / November 1993
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20. The Poetics of Decadence : Chinese Poetry of the Southern Dynasties and Late Tang Periods (Suny Series in Chinese Philosphy and Culture) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Fusheng Wu / State Univ of New York Pr / June 1998
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21. Landscape over Zero (New Directions Paperbook, 831) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Pei-Tao, et al / New Directions / October 1996
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22. Women Poets of China (New Directions Paperbook, 528) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Kenneth Rexroth, Ling Chung (Photographer) / W.W. Norton & Company / November 1990
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23. The Selected Poems of T'Ao Ch'Ien ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

T'Ao Ch'Ien, et al / Copper Canyon Pr / May 1993
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24. Five T'ang Poets (Field Translation Series) ~ Special Order

David Young(Translator) / Oberlin College Press / March 1990
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25. Beyond Spring : T'Zu Poems of the Sung Dynasty (Translations from the Asian Classics) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Julie Landau(Translator) / Columbia Univ Pr / April 1997
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26. Poems of the Late Tang (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works :, Chinese Series) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

A.C. Graham(Editor) / Viking Pr / May 1985
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27. Zen Poems of China & Japan : The Crane's Bill (An Evergreen Book) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Lucien Stryk(Translator), et al / Grove Press / February 1988
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28. Songs of Gold Mountain : Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Marlon K. Hom, Marion K. Hom / Univ California Press / November 1992
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29. Forms of Distance ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Bei Dao, David Hinton (Translator) / New Directions / May 1995
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30. Zen Poetry : Let the Spring Breeze Enter ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Lucien Stryk(Translator), et al / Grove/Atlantic / February 1995
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31. Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing : The Wakan Roei Shu (Translations from the Asian Classics) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

J. Thomas Rimer(Translator), et al / Columbia Univ Pr / November 1997
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32. The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry : Yuan, Ming, and Ching Dynasties (Translations from the Oriental Classics) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Jonathan Chaves(Editor) / Columbia Univ Pr / October 1988
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33. Sleepless Nights : Verses for the Wakeful ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Wen-Hsiang, Thomas Cleary (Translator) / North Atlantic Books / April 1995
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34. Out of the Howling Storm : The New Chinese Poetry ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Tony Barnstone(Editor) / Wesleyan Univ Pr / May 1993
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35. Crossing the Sea ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

To-To, et al / Stoddart Pub / November 1998
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36. From the Bluest Part of the Harbour : Poems from Hong Kong (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Andrew Parkin(Editor) / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / March 1996
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37. Ezra Pound and the Appropriation of Chinese Poetry : Cathay, Translation, and Imagism (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 2042) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Ming Xie, Ming Hsieh / Garland Pub / December 1998
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38. Beyond Spring : T'Zu Poems of the Sung Dynasty ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Julie Landau(Translator) / Columbia Univ Pr / June 1994
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39. Autumn Window ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

William Marr / Charlene Ann Baumbich
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40. Poetry of Han-Shan (Suny Series in Buddhist Studies) ~ Back Ordered

Robert G. Henricks / State Univ of New York Pr / March 1990
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41. August Sleepwalker ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Bei Dao, Bonnie S. McDougall (Translator) / New Directions / June 1990
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42. Reconsidering Tu Fu : Literary Greatness and Cultural Context (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature, and Institutions) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Eva Shan Chou, et al / Cambridge Univ Pr (Short) / January 1996
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43. Carrying over : Poems from the Chinese, Urdu, MacEdonian, Yiddish, and French African ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Carolyn Kizer(Editor), Edouard Maunick / Copper Canyon Pr / November 1988
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44. The Red Azalea : Chinese Poetry Since the Cultural Revolution ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Edward Morin(Editor), et al / Univ of Hawaii Pr / December 1990
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45. Old Snow ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Bei Dao, et al / New Directions / November 1991
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46. The Late Poems of Meng Chiao (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Chiao Meng, et al / Princeton Univ Pr / March 1997
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47. Washing Silk : The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834-910) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Robin D. S. Yates / Harvard Univ Pr / December 1988
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48. No Trace of the Gardener : Poems of Yang Mu ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Yang Mu, et al / Yale Univ Pr / March 1998
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49. Waiting for the Unicorn : Poems and Lyrics of China's Last Dynasty, 1644-1911 (Chinese Literature in Translation) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

William Schultz(Editor), Irving Y. Lo (Editor) / Indiana Univ Pr / February 1990
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50. New Generation : Poems from China Today ~ Not Yet Published

Ping Wang(Editor) / Hanging Loose Pr / July 1999
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51. A Splintered Mirror : Chinese Poetry from the Democracy Movement ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Donald Finkel(Translator), Carolyn Kizer (Translator) / North Point Press / February 1991
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52. Tian Wen : A Chinese Book of Origins ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Stephen Field(Translator), et al / New Directions / October 1986
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53. New Generation : Chinese Poetry Today ~ Special Order

Ping Wang(Editor) / Hanging Loose Pr / May 1999
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54. The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain ~ Not Yet Published -- On Order

Han Shan, Red Pine (Translator) / Mercury House / February 1999
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55. Carrying over : Poems from the Chinese Urdu MacEdonian Yiddish and French African ~ Special Order

Carolyn Kizer(Editor) / Copper Canyon Pr / January 1989
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56. Pearls in the Shell : Best Loved Short Verses from the Chinese Language ~ Usually ships in 1-2 weeks

J. S. Soong(Editor) / Asian Humanities Press / December 1998
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57. Pearl from the Dragon's Mouth : Evocation of Scene and Feeling in Chinese Poetry (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, No 67) ~ Special Order

Cecile Chu-Chin Sun / Center for Chinese Studies / February 1996
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58. Tao Qian and the Chinese Poetic Tradition : The Quest for Cultural Identity (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, No 66) ~ Special Order

Charles Yim-Tze Kwong / Center for Chinese Studies / March 1995
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59. The Zigzag Way (Manoa, 10 : 1) ~ Special Order

Frank Stewart(Editor) / Univ of Hawaii Pr / May 1998
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60. Chinese Women Poets : An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism from Ancient Times to 1911 ~ Not Yet Published -- On Order

Kang-I Sun Chang(Editor), Haun Saussy (Editor) / Stanford Univ Pr / June 1999
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