Listening All Night to the Rain: Selected Poems of Su Dongpo (Su Shi) Alton Hornsby Jr. Ryan is a San Francisco-based

Ryan is a San Francisco-based playwright

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Münster University of Applied Sciences

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Listening All Night to the Rain: Selected Poems of Su Dongpo (Su Shi) Alton Hornsby Jr. Ryan is a San Francisco-basedWe find timeless expressions of human experience in the poems of Su Dongpo (1037 1101), translated with grace and power by Lin and Young. We follow Dongpo through his life of multiple political exiles. From early in his life he ponders the transitory nature of reality with beauty and a sober lightness: "back to those earlier scenes and the clouds of yellow dust along the roads" "I lean on the railing, my spirit flies away, and I can't call it back"