``The road to Shu is hard, but harder still is to convey the spirit with which these poems were first written over a thousand years ago.
And yet the translators have given us translations that feel alive, as if they were more like a dance between poet and translator, both of whom live on through the beauty of these poems.
The night is young, and this book is full of music.
``--Red Pine Three Hundred Tang Poems includes great names like Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei, as well as a splendid sampling of the rest of poets who helped to make the Tang the golden age of Chinese poetry.
