• The Cathay poems are primarily written by the Chinese poet Li Po, referred to throughout these translations as Rihaku, the Japanese form of his name.
  • Poems about Cathay at the world's largest poetry site.
  • In 1918, three years after the publication of Cathay , two installments of a short essay by Pound simply titled “Chinese Poetry” appeared in the little magazine...
  • The Cathay poems are primarily written by the Chinese poet Li Po, refered to throughout these translations as Rihaku, the Japanese form of his name.
  • Discover the beauty of ancient Chinese poetry in this timeless collection of translated works.
  • English: Title page from Ezra Pound, "Cathay", London, Elkin Mathews, 1915. Based on the translations of Ernest Fenollosa.
  • Signed limited edition of Pound's Cathay with seven color woodcuts by Francesco Clemente.Ezra Pound (French).Woodcuts by Francesco Clemente...
  • Cathay: A Critical Edition includes the original fourteen Chinese translations as well as Pound’s unique version of “The Seafarer,” which is fully annotated...
  • The poet Sarah Maguire has also spoken of this feeling; in an essay for the Poetry Review she claims Pound’s Cathay ‘successfully “domesticates” and...