Re: The utter irrelevance of 5-7-5
Sundeep Dougal (holden@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in)
Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:53:51 +0530
> A quibble: did Li Po, who was Chinese, ever write in the haiku
style?
> Thought he just drank alot. :)
I thought so too - but didn't look hard enough. Don't know much about
Chinese or Japanese poetry apart from whatever little I've come across
here and there, and a favourite collection of Chinese poetry
translated by Vikram Seth. I first thought it was Po Lo being talked
about, then was reminded of Li Bai or something similar to that, and
though it seemed that this Li Po would definitely be Chinese, and have
nothing to do with haikus, proceeded to go on with my discourse on
haikus that fascinates me in Hofstadter's book.
And, yes, Matt, what a shame about poetry translators.
Sonny