by Jeanne Larsen (Translator)

Wine-house singers, empresses, angst-ridden wives, and broken-hearted nuns: poems from China's golden age.

Author Biography

Jeanne Larsen has published three novels set in China and has translations in many recent anthologies of traditional Chinese poetry. Her first book of poetry translation was Brocade River Poems: Selected Work of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan Xue Tao. She teaches in the creative writing program at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.