Listen to “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound
Published in Cathay: Translations (1915)
Learn more about Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
His life with commentary on his poems (Modern American Poetry HP)
Petals on a Wet Black Bough: American Modernist Writers and the Orient (Yale Univ.)
Ezra Pound and the Invention of Japan (The Margins HP)
“Choukankou“: A Japanese translation of Li Po (æŽç™½): Pound’s “translation” of Rihaku was itself based on a Japanese translation.