The road to Shu is hard, but harder still is to convey the spirit with
which these poems were first written over a thousand years ago. And yet
the translators have given us translations that feel alive, as if they
were more like a dance between poet and translator, both of whom live on
through the beauty of these poems. The night is young, and this book is
full of music.--Red Pine
Three Hundred Tang Poems includes great names like Li Bai, Du Fu, and
Wang Wei, as well as a splendid sampling of the rest of poets who helped
to make the Tang the golden age of Chinese poetry.