Poetry in the Moment: Chinese Coin Tanka

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Chinese Coin Tanka

English Original

Chinese silver coin
you handed me
as I left for Canada
lost to the sky --
a full moon

German Translation by Dietmar Tauchner

die chinesische Silbermünze
die du mir gabst
als ich nach Kanada aufbrach
verloren an den Himmel --
der volle Mond

Chrysanthemum, #7

Ripples from a Splash

My book is now available through www.lulu.com [Liu's] haiku resonates the Asian spirit, and makes use of aesthetics in a continuum of time that is permanent and impermanent; the process more important than the subjective specificity of object bias found in most Anglo-Western haiku like poems. His poetry demand to be interpreted by the informed reader. They do not tell all, are not based on an “aha” moment, and have no definitive ending. More importantly they give meaning and voice to the unsaid, the magic inherent in Japanese poetry. -- Poetry Review by Robert D. Wilson, Editor-in-chief of Simply Haiku.

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