{"product_id":"staunin-ma-lane-9781848614666","title":"Staunin Ma Lane","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brian Holton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asian - Chinese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStaunin Ma Lane\u003c\/em\u003e isn't intended to be a comprehensive tour of classical [Chinese] poetry, though it does contain specimens of many of the major genres and styles, and it may serve as a first primer. Note that the poetry is in the Scots: the English versions are there to help the non-Scots speaker. It has been my aim to make poems in Scots: if you expect to find dictionary definitions of Chinese words in my translations, you will be disappointed. That sort of drably mechanical 'accuracy' does not make poetry, and a poem that doesn't move the reader is like a joke that isn't funny. In the translation of poetry, there are many, many more ways of being wrong than of being right, and I do not claim that my versions are in any way definitive or better than anyone else's: I do, however, want to say to the reader, \"Deek whit the Mither Tongue can dae: gin it can dae this, whit'll it no can dae?\" (Look what our mother tongue can do: if it can do this, what will it not do?), and I would urge readers inclined toward translation to do it for themselves, whatever their mother tongue might be. -from Brian Holton's Afterword in this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46318485471383,"sku":"9781848614666","price":1690.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781848614666.webp?v=1768681599","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/staunin-ma-lane-9781848614666","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}