{"product_id":"magpie-at-night-li-qingzhao-9780241774076","title":"Magpie at Night","description":"Li 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 ci – 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.\nIn 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 status as a necessary and iconic literary figure.","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50693395644704,"sku":"9780241774076","price":11.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780241774076.jpg?v=1785290005","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/magpie-at-night-li-qingzhao-9780241774076","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}