Why translations of premodern poetry are having their moment (1)

SPRING VIEW

state gone, just creeks and peaks
spring grows high in the streets
times bloom with sprinkled tears
birds part and start at heart
beacons burn for three months letters worth piles of gold
I scratch my white hair short
so my pin doesn’t hold

Du Fu; tr. Martin Winter, July 2016

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