Oct 11, 2022 • 35M

Wayfaring Poet Profile: Wei Ying-wu (737-791)

A Reflection on Names, Naming, & Another Wayfaring Poet of The Way

 
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In this episode of The Poet’s Dreamingbody, I address a question about names and naming that have come in, in a few different ways, since the summer — not only about my own Wayfaring name given to me by my late teacher but also about the Wayfaring poets in general; namely, “Why do some poets have different names or more than one name?” Then, we explore the next poet in the Wayfaring Poet Profile Series, Wei Ying-wu (737-791).


BOOKS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu, Red Pine

Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China, David Hinton

The Complete Cold Mountain Poems, Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt

SOUND MAP FOR THE EPISODE

Endless River, Roy Mattson