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Recommended by Andrew O. Dugas

Chinese poems from the Tang Dynasty in your inbox, every Wednesday

As famous as it is, Tang Dynasty poetry is underappreciated even among poets. Strikingly modern in tone and theme, poets like Tu Fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei, and their peers have much to teach us. Even though I have volumes of such on my bookshelf, I find the renderings here quite good.

- Andrew O. Dugas

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