When I first saw Red Pine’s translation of “The Poems of Cold Mountain,” I remember thinking, “This is something important — who’s this Red Pine?”
Read MoreMost people in Japan can reach back to their school days to unhesitatingly recite the famous opening lines of the thousand-year-old classic known in English as The Pillow Book. The sounds roll off the tongue like poetry…
Read MoreThe first day we met, he introduced himself with these words: “I am Heinrich, from Bavaria, located in the south of Germany.”
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