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| Day 2 - Li Po  | Li Po (pronounced as li bô, also known as Li Bai, li bye, or Li T'ai-po, li tye bô) lived the wild mad poet's life in the class-bound Confucian society of 8th century China. His poems have been translated into English many times, but were introduced most notably to Americans in the sometimes meticulous, sometimes quite loose translations of Ezra Pound. | | "Drinking Alone in the Moonlight"
This is the most famous of Li Po’s many, many poems celebrating wine-drinking. It combines his cool observation and the romantic extravagance associated with the legend of his death—that he drunkenly dove into the river to embrace the reflection of the moon, and drowned.
| For further reading: Profile of Li Po
His early life in Sichuan, in the Imperial Court at Chang’an, and years of wandering, war, exile and pardon.
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