#book of odes

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澤陂 彼澤之陂、有蒲與荷。 有美一人、傷如之何。 寤寐無為、涕泗滂沱。

By the shores of that marsh, There are rushes and lotus plants. There is the beautiful lady; – I am tortured for her, but what avails it? Waking or sleeping, I do nothing; From my eyes and nose the water streams.

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詩經 Shi Jing / Book of Odes - Circa 11th / 7th centuries BC

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Graphic - 吕嘉 Jia Lu  (B.1954)

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诗者，志之所之也，在心为志，发言为诗，情动于中而形于言，言之不足，故嗟叹之，嗟叹之不足，故咏歌之，咏歌之不足，不知手之舞之足之蹈之也。 Poetry is where the will goes. While in one's heart, it is one's will; expressed in words, it is one's poetry. Emotion moves within and takes shape in words. Words are not enough, and so one sighs it. Sighing it is not enough, and so one draws it out in song. Drawing it out in song is not enough, and so all unawares one’s hands dance it and one’s feet tap it out.

The Great Preface to the Classic of Poetry (诗大序), author debated. 11th-7th century BC. Translated by Steven Van Zoeren in 1991, edited by Jay Zhang.

The Classic of Poetry (詩經), also called the Book of Odes, is one of China’s Five Classics and one of the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry and folk songs, said to have been compiled by Confucius himself. In the longer of the two prefaces, the “Great Preface,” the author gives a short treatise on the entirety of the Classic of Poetry, explaining that poetry explains the author’s will, intentions, and ambitions. 

This idea of “poetry as the will” would come to influence Chinese literary theory for centuries to come, especially as the folk songs and poetry of the masses became a popular topic of study for aristocrats, officials, and rulers seeking to understand the plight of the common people — poetry would also later become both a key metric by which one’s intellectual and moral merits were measured, as well as an important tool for political protest and expression.

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How free and lush the bamboo grows, the bamboo grows and grows Shoots and morasses, fillies and lassies and shreds and beds and rows O phloem and pistil, nodes and ovules       The bamboo grows and grows Her release, her joy, her oil, her toil, her moxie, her terror, her swirl  Dig deeper into soil, deeper into her soul, what do you find in my girl  Thrash of black hair and silken snare, face in the bottom of the world  Bound by ankles, poor deer, poor sow, O delicate hooves and fascicles       Dead doe, dead doe, dead doe  Wrists together, searing red tethers, blood draining from her soles  O choir, O psalm, O soaring fearsome tabernacle  The bamboo grows, the bamboo grows and grows  Through antlers and eyeholes, O sweet soul, O sweet, sweet soul   Thin green tails, purple entrails, the bamboo grows and grows  She flailed and wailed through flimsy veils, through bones and hissing marrow  Nobody to hear her, but wind and chaff, a gasp, then letting go  They loved her, then stoned her, buried her near her ancestors       My mother, my sister, my soul   Shimmering mesh, a brocade sash, hanging on a distant oracle  Springboks dance on shallow mounds, echoes, echoes, echoes

Bamboo, the Dance by Marilyn Chin (陈美玲). 2018.

Marilyn Chin is a poet and writer born in Hong Kong but raised in Portland, Oregon. Her poetry largely focuses on social issues, especially those involving bi-cultural identity or feminism. Chin has received many honours for her work, including five Pushcart Prizes and the opportunity to read her work at the Library of Congress. She is professor emerita at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. 

Bamboo, the Dance was written for the Terezin Music Foundation, for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The poem is written in fugue form, and the image of the dead doe is an allusion to the Book of Odes (诗经). 

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3 Maccabees 3 Maccabees was originally written in Greek.  It was included in the Septuagint Bible.  It’s original title is unknown.  Some Orthodox churches include this book in their Bibles, but Catholics and Protestants do not. It has the same characters as 2 Maccabees: it has the prayers of Eleazar the teacher of the Law and Simon the high priest.  They lived between 170 and 130 BC. The…

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Traveling to remote locations that were associated with ancient lyrics from the Book of Odes (Shi Jing), Taca Sui photographed landscapes and evocative details that were remarkable for their poetic intensity. Steles – Huang Yi Project is on view at Chambers Fine Art http://bit.ly/1TGJGBr

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野有死麇、白茅包之。 有女懷春、吉士誘之。 林有樸樕、野有死鹿。 白茅純束、有女如玉。 舒而脫脫兮、無感我帨兮、無使尨也吠 In the wild there is a dead antelope , And it is wrapped up with the white grass . There is a young lady with thoughts natural to the spring , And a fine gentleman would lead her astray . In the forest there are the scrubby oaks ; In the wild there is a dead deer , And it is bound round with the white grass . There is a young lady like a gem . [She says] , Slowly ; gently , gently ; Do not move my handkerchief ; Do not make my dog bark .

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