Comments on: Fighting South of the Wall https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/fighting-south-of-the-wall/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Mon, 30 May 2016 23:15:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: beth https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/fighting-south-of-the-wall/#comment-5096 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:15:50 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/28/fighting-south-of-the-wall/#comment-5096 Nice, Dave, and depressing. We humans certainly don’t learn much.

Soen Joon, great to see you!!

]]> By: Dick https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/fighting-south-of-the-wall/#comment-5095 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:09:37 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/28/fighting-south-of-the-wall/#comment-5095 Well, I’m none the wiser, Dave, & little point in reaching for a dictionary to try to catch you out! A fine piece of documentary poetry, whatever its provenance.

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/fighting-south-of-the-wall/#comment-5094 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:11:39 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/28/fighting-south-of-the-wall/#comment-5094 Hey, Sunim, long time no “see”! Glad you liked this. You should be able to find the original readily – an often-anthologized work by one of the Tang Dynasty’s two most famous poets. (I’m working on one by the other, Du Fu, now.)

Hi, Richard. Violence is exciting – which is why bloody epics far outnumber anti-war poems, despite what some people in Poets Against The War may tell you.

]]> By: Soen Joon https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/fighting-south-of-the-wall/#comment-5093 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:47:59 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/28/fighting-south-of-the-wall/#comment-5093 Beautiful; since I’m learning Classical Chinese now, I can “hear” faintly–do to my own blundering grip on the language, not your translation–the cadence of the characters. I’d love to see the original, in part because the sparity you brought to your translation so suits the brutal and distance places of the poem (Tian Shan, the Gobi or the Taklamakan) and war. Very clean images. Well done and thank you.

]]> By: Richard Lawrence Cohen https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/fighting-south-of-the-wall/#comment-5092 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:17:17 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/28/fighting-south-of-the-wall/#comment-5092 Beautiful and chilling. And what’s most chilling to me is that it sounds like fun.

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