Listening All Night to the Rain: Selected Poems of Su Dongpo (Su Shi) Alton Hornsby Jr. some forty years after they

some forty years after they were disbanded

Münster University of Applied Sciences

Author: Thomas Berger

before which he was on staff with Amnesty International in the 1980s

this book is the powerful yet accessible resource parents have long wished for

Listening All Night to the Rain: Selected Poems of Su Dongpo (Su Shi) Alton Hornsby Jr. some forty years after theyWe 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"