Hiding in Caverns – 藏鱼窟
Yu Xuanji 鱼玄机 (c. 843–868) – slim volume of works by this undeservedly lesser-known female Tang-period poet. Translated by Lucas Klein. Feels phenomenally modern and proto-feminist.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/hiding-in-caverns-formed-from-old-roots-9780197778173
雲峰滿目放春晴
歷歷銀鈎指下生
自恨羅衣掩詩句
舉頭空羨榜中名
Peaks of clouds fill my eyes and let loose the clarity of spring:
clearly, great calligraphy is born beneath these fingers.
I hate how my clothes cover up these lines,
but I raise my head, looking up at the names of these successful candidates.
Part of of the Hsu-Tang Library of Traditional Chinese Literature recently launched by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/hsu-tang-library
Many more titles to come…
