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"A collection of the 44 greatest-ever poems from the Tang dynasty and Song dynasty, dodgily "translated" into (1) English; (2) 2021; (3) Singapore; (4) a pandemic. So Su Dongpo never used zoom, and Du Fu never caught COVID-19; so Li Bai never drank lagavulin and Wang Wei never went to Little India. but hey, none of them ever spoke English either. Flip on, or scroll down, or swipe through. In a world where every other poem is about the moon, our modern moon is a smartphone screen - what we reflect upon, what brings us light, what accompanies us when we drink alone, and what we share with someone a thousand miles away. The collection asks you to invite thousand-year-old notions of sorrow, angst, regret, ennui, drunkenness, homesickness, longing and laughter into a contemporary frame, and to see if these long-buried poets of long-lost dynasties can still entice a modern heart to choose to be lost - in translation"--Back cover.