Danielle Mckinney, Mercy (detail), featured in AGNI 103
Seeing a Friend Off
Translated from the Chinese by Gu Zhen and Harry Thomas
Published:
Li Po
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
Gu Zhen is a graduate student in English at Boston University. (updated 1990)
Harry Thomas
Harry Thomas lives now in Los Angeles. (updated 5/2010)
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