Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

“Essential reading for anyone interested in translation.” – Perry Link - Complete Review “There is a great profusion of Chinese poetry in English, and this fact is significant. It suggests that, despite all the barriers, this poetry does communicate, even urgently, to modern Western readers. Both the difficulty and the urgency are elegantly demonstrated in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei. Weinberger collates and comments on a series of translations of Wang Wei’s famous poem ‘Deer Park,’ allowing the reader to see how even this brief poem-twenty characters, in four lines-contains endless shades of meaning and implication.” – Adam Kirsch - The New Republic “Weinberger is like an ancient Chinese zither player, tuning lonely in the mountain overlooking the world.” – Bei Dao

Eliot Weinberger (b. NYC, 1949) is an essayist and translator. He won PEN’s first Gregory Kolovakos Award for promoting Hispanic literature in the US, and he is America’s first literary writer to receive Mexico’s Order of the Aztec Eagle. He lives in New York City.