Bunches and Bits {Karina}, “Sepia,” November 2009
T. S. Eliot, in 1928, famously called Ezra Pound “the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time.”1 Eliot was referring to Pound’s renditions of fourt…
T.S. Eliot
February 21, 2017
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Artwork by Arya Gopi / Courtesy of the artist
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Patricio Ferrari and Nikola Madžirov. Photo by Peng Yu.
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Mirza Alakbar Sabir and the first issue of Molla Nasreddin / Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
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