Poetry post!

Jun 29, 2006 13:38

Okay, so this is from a book of poems translated by Burton Watson, who claims in his introduction that, essentially, classical poems from China don't go for sexy.

And then he prints things like this:

Oh oh - ah ah -
thoughts of you will never end!
Your left arm I used for a pillow,
and when you turned on your side, I turned with you.

Anon.

...Perhaps we simply have very different tastes, Burton Watson and I.

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