Light of Ashes
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Beginning with Sappho, the "tenth muse" in ancient Greece, the poet Nishikawa selected 44 representative poets in the history of poetry development and their 103 classic lyric works, together with 44 exclusive portraits of poets, to compile this unique anthology of world lyric poetry. It breaks the traditional limitation of focusing on European and American poets, extends the tentacles of poetry to Persia, India, Vietnam, and Japan, and strives to outline a more comprehensive map of world poetry for Chinese poetry readers. Stretching from the 6th century BC to the 20th century, the poet uses the sensitivity of the poet to witness the beauty and sorrow, passion and uneasiness of our era for more than two thousand years. Rumi: "Let the soul speak, with the face of silence." Hafiz: "Tonight's topic is love, tomorrow night, and the day after tomorrow." Joyce: "Sing of those who love each other, now sleep in death, love is so tired, all love sleeps in the cemetery." T. S. Eliot: "Love is a strange name, there is a Hands that weave flames, with fire that no one can bear, weave clothes that no one can untie." Dylan Thomas: "Don't go into that good night meekly. Rage, rage against the death of light." In a world that may be destroyed tomorrow, poetry is the light shining among the ashes and ruins, always giving us love and strength.
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