Eva Lundsager, Were now like (detail), 2021, oil on canvas
AGNI 29 and 30
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Li Po (701–762), one of the greatest of the Tang Dynasty poets, was adding his voice to an entire tradition of Chinese antiwar poems in his AGNI poem “Fighting South of the Wall,” a recurrent theme and title as old as the Great Wall itself.
Gu Zhen is a graduate student in English at Boston University. (updated 1990)
Harry Thomas lives now in Los Angeles. (updated 5/2010)