Chinese Poets of the Tang Dynasty

This week, to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival (where Chinese people eat lots of mooncakes and stuff themselves with other delicious treats) Jessie and Helen talk about Chinese poets who lived during the Tang Dynasty - Li Bai and Du Fu. They also finish off the episode by reciting their favourite poems. For Helen; it’s Robert Frost’s THE ROAD NOT TAKEN. For Jessie, it’s Dorothea Lasky’s POEM TO AN UNNAMEABLE MAN.


Also discussed:

Jessie weeps while listening to these articles read to her from her favourite app AUDM:

“Out there, Nobody Can Hear You Scream”, By Latria Graham, Outside Magazine (21 September 2020)

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court’s Feminist Icon, Is Dead at 87” By Linda Greenhouse (18 September 2020)

The letter Ruth’s husband Marty wrote on his deathbed to her:

“My dearest Ruth,” it began. “You are the only person I have loved in my life, setting aside, a bit, parents and kids and their kids, and I have admired and loved you almost since the day we first met at Cornell. What a treat it has been to watch you progress to the very top of the legal world.”

Madeleine Thien’s article on Ha Jin and David Hinton’s new books on Du Fu and Li Bai
“Poems Without an ‘I’”, October 8 Issue, 2020

Du Fu - Poetry Foundation Profile
Li Bai - Poetry Foundation Profile

Chiang Hsun - TED X TALK (Taipei, 2012)

Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken

Dorothea Lasky: Poem to an Unnameable Man

Purchase Jessie's Book : Jessie Tu | A Lonely Girl Is A Dangerous Thing  

Purchase Zoya's Book: Zoya Patel | No Country Woman  

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