Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Monday, May 3, 2010

Featured Tanka in Atlas Poetica

English Original:

the same moon
Li Po drank to
the same autumn
Tu Fu wrote of—
I alone change


French Translation by Mike Montreuil

la même lune
dont Li Po s’abreuvait
le même automne
que décrivait Tu Fu—
moi seul je change


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