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Bada Shanren

Translation: Three Eastern Authors: Five Poems

Summer 1998

Globefish

By Bada Shanren, translated by Arthur Sze

      —from the third of four album leaves   A fine rain drizzles and drizzles on Yellow Bamboo Village. A light boat bobs and bobs among waves and clouds. How can […]

Translation: Three Eastern Authors: Five Poems

Summer 1998

Inscription for a Painting

By Bada Shanren, translated by Arthur Sze

Summer solstice: on Chang-t’ai Street, I dab a corpse-like cloud image with a brush. Of the chronicles recited on the ancient terrace, where is the wind that will wash them […]