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Shih ShuTimeline (1660? - 1740?)
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"Shih-shu" is a term that can be translated as "rock and bark poetry" -- nature poetry that often poked fun at the bustle of city life and city mind. Rather than brushed onto fine paper, shih-shu poems were scratched into pieces of bark, bamboo, or rocks. |
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The Clouds Should Know Me By Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China, Edited by Red Pine Amazon.com
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A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry, Edited by J. P. Seaton / Edited by Dennis Maloney Amazon.com
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Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, Edited by Wu-chi Liu / Edited by Irving Yucheng Lo Amazon.com
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| The Clouds Should Know Me by Now http://www.yakrider.com/Resources/excerpts/theclouds.htm The introduction to the book of the above title, with some background on shih-shu poetry and the poet who took on the term as a nom de plume. |
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