The Ohio Distinguished Authors Series Out on the Autumn River: The Selected Poems of Du Mu Available Now! Order this book from this website, or by phone from our distributor (SPD spdbooks.org)at 1.800.869.7553 158 pp. 6x9 Paper $19.95 ISBN13: 978-0-9792091-5-4 ISBN10: 0-9792091-5-3 Translated by David Young and Jiann Lin Available NOW! Buy here, or by phone from our distributor SPD spdbooks.org at 1-800-869-7553

Du Mu (803-852) is admired, among the many gifted poets of the late Tang Dynasty, for his immense technical skill -- especially his mastery of the short lyric, and for his observant delight in the world around him. In a difficult life and a difficult time, he nevertheless managed to find sensuous joy in birds, wine, flowers, women, seasons, and, not least, China's great river systems, where he traveled both in his official duties and as a poet curious about his world. His poems still brim with life, humor, and wonder, and this generous selection of them is the first full-length volume in English. About Jiann I. Lin Jiann I. Lin is East Asian Librarian at Oberlin College. His earlier collaboration with David Young is The Clouds Float North: The Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji (Wesleyan, 1998). About David Young David Young is well known both as a translator and a poet. His latest book of poems is Black Lab (Knopf, 2006) and his recent translations include The Poetry of Petrarch (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004) and Eugenio Montale: Selected Poems [with Charles Wright and Jonathan Galassi (Oberlin College Press, 2004)].

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