{"product_id":"magpie-at-night-1","title":"Magpie at Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eLi Qingzhao is justly celebrated for her place in Chinese literary history. She was a poet with a wry, unsentimental style and a rich sense of melody. Her \u003ci\u003eci \u003c\/i\u003e– lyrics that were originally set to music – are glorious in their depth and genius, spare and arresting on the line. They evoke with rare immediacy the haunting beauty of country life during the Song dynasty; the unseen, restive labour of the poet; and Li Qingzhao’s bracing take on what it means to create art as a woman in the shadow of exile, war, imprisonment, and an unwelcoming literary establishment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Wendy Chen’s splendid new translation, each poem is as sharp and fresh as the edge of a new spring leaf. These richly textured bolts of melody are masterpieces of verse, as resonant and bracing today as they were in the eleventh century; and they underscore Li Qingzhao's status as a necessary and iconic literary figure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57257714155864,"sku":"9780241774083","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/magpie-at-night-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}