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My dear friend* nowhere in sight,
this Han River keeps flowing east.
Now, if I look for old masters here,
I find empty rivers and mountains.
*Meng Hao-jan was another of China’s great poets and Wang Wei’s immediate poetic predecessor.
From Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China, forthcoming from New Directions.
My dear friend* nowhere in sight,
this Han River keeps flowing east.
Now, if I look for old masters here,
I find empty rivers and mountains.
*Meng Hao-jan was another of China’s great poets and Wang Wei’s immediate poetic predecessor.
