The selected poems of Tu Fu

Tu Fu

Original title: Poems

Translated by Sam Hamill first published 1724 White Pine Pr, 1988 paperback 112 pages

Gu dian shi ci ming jia

Du Fu (712–770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry—still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now David Young, author of Black Lab, and well known as a translator of Chinese poets, gives us a sparkling new translation of Du Fu’s verse, arranged to give us a tour of the life, each “chapter” of poems preceded by an introductory paragraph that situates us in place, time, and...

Where to get it

Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title

This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.

Change library
You pick this yourself. We don't guess it from your location, and we don't record where you are.

How it reads

Pace We don't know yet not analysed yet
Density We don't know yet not analysed yet
Tone We don't know yet not analysed yet

Your log

Sign in to log this book — your log is private to you.

What readers call it

No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.

Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.

Content warnings

Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.

No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.

Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.

Add a content warning

This book in English

Sam Hamill 1 printing we hold · 1988 · White Pine Pr

Which translation should you read?

Editions we hold

Du Fu edition · 2008 · Alfred A. Knopf · 256 pages · 9780375711602
Du Fu shi xuan edition · 2005 · Zhonghua shu ju · 283 pages · 9787101043471
Du Fu shi xuan paperback · 2001 · Wai wen chu ban she · 351 pages · 9787119028897
Du shi quan ji edition · 1999 · Tian di chu ban she · 2438 pages
Cinquanta poesies de Du Fu edition · 1992 · Edicions dels Quaderns Crema · 111 pages
The selected poems of Tu Fu edition · 1989 · New Directions · 173 pages
Facing the Snow paperback · 1988 · White Pine Pr · 112 pages
Du Fu shi xuan edition · 1984 · Sheng huo, du shu, xin zhi san lian shu dian · 251 pages
Tu Fu--a new translation edition · 1981 · Commercial Press · 229 pages

Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.