The Lantern and the Night Moths

Winner of the John Glassco Translation Prize from the Literary Translators Association of Canada the lantern light seems to have written a poem; they feel lonesome since i won’t read them. —“lantern” by Fei Ming The work of Tang Dynasty Classical Chinese poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei has long been celebrated in both China and internationally, and various English translations and mistranslations of their work played a pivotal yet often unacknowledged role in shaping the emergence and