Nineteen ways of looking at wang wei how a chinese poem is translated exhibit commentary by eliot weipberger further comments oy octavio paz moyer bell umited mt kisco new york qg1 tf. Buy 19 ways of looking at wang wei how a chinese poem is translated by weinberger eliot paz octavio isbn 9780918825148 from amazons book store everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 19 ways of looking at wang wei how a chinese poem is translated details written by eliot weinberger octavio paz nineteen different translations of a single poem with comments on each version by eliot weinberger and introduction contributed by octavio paz purchase book. Eliot weinberger takes big strides across literary history in his genuinely breathtaking short work 19 ways of looking at wang wei tracking translations of a short ancient chinese poem from the publication of ezra pounds cathay in 1915 to gary snyders translations in the late 70s this new edition from new directions publishing includes an addition weinberger wrote this past year covering more recent efforts by sinologists in the twenty first century in english french and german. Eliot weinbergers 19 ways of looking at wang wei subtitled how a chinese poem is translated presents wang weis famous deer park poem in 19 versions chinese transliterated chinese pinyin and a word by word rendering then in 16 or so translations with weinbergers comments the translations are primarily into english although a spanish version and two french