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Article: Orient Expressed: Imagism.(Review)
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- October 30, 2000
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CROSSING THE YELLOW RIVER: Three Hundred Poems From the Chinese.
Translated and introduced by Sam Hamill. Preface by W.S. Merwin.
BOA. 275 pp. $19.95.
LU CHI'S WEN FU: The Art of Writing.
Translated by Sam Hamill. Revised and expanded edition. Milkweed.
40 pp. $12.95.
However varied their styles, poets writing in English today still rely on the early-twentieth-century Imagist principles of clarity, directness, presentative imagery and rhythm based on cadences. Although Imagism, revolutionary in its time, gathered force from several classical traditions, Chinese poetry was at the forefront.
Now, Crossing the Yellow River shows anew the vitality of ...