Chinese Erotic Poems -

Tony Barnstone, Chou Ping

Everyman Library

2007

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-13: 9780307265678

Português Brasileiro

The ancient Chinese tradition of erotic poetry has been largely ignored in the west. Now, a continent of sensual verse is opened to us with this collection spanning nearly three thousand years and including many poems never before translated into English. Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping have brought together poems about deep love and pure lust, enticement and seduction, ecstasy and disappointment. Here are poems that express need, hunger, grief, and longing - for husbands and wives and for concubines and lovers; poems by turns explicit or subtle, light-hearted or desperate, written from both men’s and women’s points of view.