Poetry

Barneto, Rafael J y Tseng, Jorge JC. - Soul and Matter. Kapok tree. 2005.

In the classic China, the calligraphy, the painting and the poetry have been three arts that have continued parallel ways and have supported a narrow relation. There is no painting that does not contain the brief one (or not so brief) calligraphy. Generally a beautiful and brief poem that is supposed complements the message of the work. In every calligraphy the formal beauty gets together with the emotional content. An expressed unit of message of multiple forms that until a few years ago were remaining forbidden for the western reader, due to the technical difficulties that were preventing from preparing in Occident works that were combining these three branches of the Chinese art. The initiative of this book, with an esquisita esthetic conception and an elegant translation of half a hundred of poems of the poets most representative of China, is an only one sample of the possibilities of edition that present the new technologies to us.

Bai Juyi. - 111 quartets. Pretexts. 2003

Bai Juyi (772-846) is one of the principal poets of the disnat�a Tang, the first one in acquiring in life an immense reputation in the whole world sinizado, particularly in Japan. His works, especially the poems of only one quartet were very imitated. Disappointed by the politics he looked for the calm in the Buddhism...

Dai Wangshu. - My memories. The Poetry, mister nobleman. 2006. Introduction, notes and translation from the Chinese of Javier Mart�n R�os.

Dai Wangshu (1905-1950) was the introductor in China of Federico Garc�a Lorca and of the Generation of 27, as well as to Rub�n Dar�o, Blasco Ib��ez, Unamuno or Azorin. He formed in the French literature since he studied in the University that the Jesuits of this nationality had in Shanghai. It resided in France (1932-1934) and Spain (1934-1935).
It intervened in the literary polemics that were generated on up to where it would be necessary to integrate the western literature inside the tradition of his country. The Magazine founded Contemporaries, fundamental for the poetry China of the XXth century. Affiliated to the communist party from young man, it was imprisoned by the Japanese invaders (1941) and later by the nationalists.
Departing from the French symbolism, it opened a proper way, which did not forget the forms and topics of the Chinese traditional poetry, in a curious parallelism of innovation and force with what the Hispanic modernists did.

Du Fu. - The oblique flight of the swallows. Hiperi�n. 2000.

Du Fu is a giant of the Chinese letters, and one of the best poets of this golden century who was the dynasty Tang. In the present selection there have been chosen poems of diverse epochs of his creative life with the target to present of global form the poetry of this genius.

Chen Guojian - Poetry China Caligrafiada and illustrated. Tran, 2006

Along the evolution of the Chinese poetry, this one collaborates often with the painting and calligraphy and three arts form an inseparable artistic triad. This book contains 32 poems with calligraphies and illustrations and ten without them, all accompanied ones of the phonetic trascripci�n. Jaime Siles indicates: "THE author not only is a sin�logo of prestige but also a recognized Hispanist expert in two cultures and capably of be unrolled well in both languages … Impossibly to realize of a wealth as varied as the one that this excellent anthology in his tight fan brings over to us" (ABC, 23-12 - 2006, in ABCD). Carlos Mart�nez Shaw comments in THE NEWSPAPER (18,07,2001):" This book is a work of art. A jewel edited thoroughly by Guojian Chen, teacher of Spanish for many years in different Chinese universities and big student of the poetry of his country, since there demonstrates his anthology of classic Poetry small stone published in Madrid by Chair in the year 2001".

Guojian Chen (ed).-Classic Poetry China. Chair. 2001.

The present anthology edited by Chen Guojian, a Chinese Hispanist who takes dedicating during the last 20 years to the translation of Chinese poetical works to Spanish, presents, as a careful study is habitual in the books of his collection "Universal letters" on the Chinese, sufficient poetry for itself to justify it to buy of this book. The interesting biographical notes that precede the poems of every author, might constitute for his part, a good portion of the "History of the Chinese poets."

Chen Guojian. - Poetry Elementary China. Kapok tree. 2008

The author says in his introduction to this work: "There is surprising the publication of the poetry and his penetration the life of the population. In the times many poems sing Tang and Song to themselves in the bars, run of mouth in mouth in the streets, register in walls or walls of the schools, of the temples, of the offices of post office. Poems are written to congratulate, to express condolence, to ask for a favor or a charge, to dismiss a friend."

Li Po. - Fifty poems. Hiperi�n. 1988

Li Po or Li Bai is other of the monsters of the golden poetry of the dynasty Tang. The life and the work of Li Po have been characterized by his love to the independence and the freedom. In fact, at the age of 20 it left his formal studies to devote itself to the Taoism. His poems are beautiful like flowers, fresh air as the roc�a of the morning.

Li Qingzhao. - Select Poems. Center of Editions of the Delegation of Malaga, 2003.
Translation of Pilar Gonz�lez Espa�a.

In the history of China the name of a woman shines with proper light, Li Qingzhao considered the best poetess of the classic Chinese literature. Although in Spanish language we had already had the opportunity to read some of his poems selected in some general anthology of Chinese poetry, this translation realized by Pilar Gonz�lez Espa�a, the first one who presents a personal anthology of the authoress, it opens a way for the discovery of other essential Chinese poets in the knowledge of the universal literature.

Mart�n R�os, Javier. - The silence of the moon. Introduction to the Chinese poetry of the dynasty Tang. Blue. 2003

While the translations of the principal poets of the dynasty Tang happen in the Spanish language, the reader throws in absence a book capable of fitting in the time and the history the poems and favorite poets. This book comes to fill a hollow in our publishing production, since with a clear language and clean style, presents the poetry of the dynasty Tang in the ambience of the Chinese poetry, of the poetry, of the history and of the thought.

Valued Idoeta, Juan Ignacio (Introduction, translation and notes).-Anthology of the Chinese poetry. Gredos. 2004

This translation of Chinese classic poems, carried out by Valued Idoeta, specialist in Taoism and in Tibetan studies, expires with the function to spread so rich poetical legacy in the Hispanic letters.

His Dongpo. - Remembering the past in the Red Cliff. Hiperi�n. 1992

The author, perhaps the most important poet of the dynasty Song spent big report of his life working like learned to the service of the emperor. In his poetry elegant esthetics get together with big musicality, with the socio-political worries and metaphysical thoughts.

Several. - Singings of love and of absence. Singings "Ci" of the Medieval China. (Bilingual). selection, translation and notes of Xu Zonghui and Enrique Gracia. Hiperi�n. 2002

This work gathers in sixty four poems a sample of the work of fifteen Chinese poets who lived between the IXth to XIIth centuries. It is a brief anthology of one of the classic forms of the Chinese poetry: the singings "Ci", which in his origin were poems destined to be sung.

Wang Wei. - Poems of the Rio Wang. Publishing house Trotta, 2004. Translation and edition of Pilar Gonz�lez Espa�a.

In the last years there have been published in Spain diverse translations of Chinese classic poetry, especially of the Chinese poetry of the dynasty Tang. For example, of the book that occupies us, Poems of the river Wang, of Wang Wei, we have two translations in Spanish very next in the time of his publication: the first translation belonged to Juan Ignacio Preciado, with the collaboration of Clara Jan�s (Editions of the East and the Mediterranean, 1999), and this second of Pilar Gonz�lez Espa�a.

You water down muertas. - Wen Yidou (Introduction, notes and translation from the Chinese of Javier Mart�n R�os). Bassarai Edition. Vitoria. 2006.

Wen Yiduo (1899-1946) was one of the Chinese poets most emphasized from the first half of the XXth century, being one of the bastions of the call "new poetry". He was a member of the literary Society of the New Moon and he claimed, together to other important poets of his epoch, like Hu Shi (1891-1962) and Xu Zhimo (1896-1931), the need to use the spoken language (baihua) as an expression way, the attainment of the form in the poem and the poem subject to the rules of the language and the prosody, the importance of the musicality of the strophe as final score of the process of the writing and the wealth of images and metaphors to express the feelings of the poet, as regards his intimate life and occurring of the nation. In sum, the poetry of Wen Yiduo takes part of this illusion for the modernity of the Chinese poets who wrote during the Movement of the New Culture. This book opens a way in the study of modern Chinese poetry in Spanish, of which scarcely we are provided with translations and research works.

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