My father is reading Chinese poetry nowadays. I think he has a good taste and he really likes it. He gave me a book by Ezra Pound called "Cathay", which I started and finished in two hours without taking a breath.
I did a little research on Chinese poetry on the web and I came across some useful sites one of which is Classical Chinese Poetry but I have a weird feeling like there was something omitted. Maybe somebody fond of Chinese poetry could recommend something to grab & read.
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Men's fates are already set
There is no need of asking diviners.
By Rihaku
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I would recommend "The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry" [2005]. This is a great starting point. There is a masterful collection called "Poems of the Late T'ang", translated by the British Sinologist A.C. Graham; this is currently out-of-print, but still cheap and easy to find on Amazon, etc. New Directions Books still publishes several anthology books by Kenneth Rexroth, as well as two volumes by Oxford Sinologist David Hinton, on Li Po & Du Fu, specifically.
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