Wang Wei
Wang Wei (701–761 C.E.) is often considered on of the three greatest poets in China’s 3,000-year poetic tradition. He was the master of the short imagistic landscape poem.
In the most penetrating moments of these poems, however various they are, Wang takes the poem beyond words on the page, as he returns consciousness to its most elemental and resounding dimensions of emptiness and landscape. The result is a breathtaking poetry.
Wang Wei (701–761 C.E.) is often considered on of the three greatest poets in China’s 3,000-year poetic tradition. He was the master of the short imagistic landscape poem.
In the most penetrating moments of these poems, however various they are, Wang takes the poem beyond words on the page, as he returns consciousness to its most elemental and resounding dimensions of emptiness and landscape. The result is a breathtaking poetry.
Wang Wei is one of those model poets, personally and artistically flawless, who occur very rarely in the history of literature.