The Flummoxed Podcast: One Writer's Journey Through the Sacred & the Profane, from Bashō to Bluegrass & Beyond
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Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 8: The Legend and Poetry of Yue Fei”:
* “Between the Hillocks” by Yue Fei in Literary Matters
* “A Poem at Galloping Horse Hill,” “Red River,” and “A Song of Drums” by Yue Fei in New Verse Review
* “The Echoes of Hooves,” “A River South,” and “Crossing the River” by Yue Fei in Blue Unicorn
* “Yue Fei: General, Poet, Legend” in New Verse Review
* “General Yue Fei: The Life, Death, & Poetry of a Warrior” in MW (“The Legend of Yue Fei”)and The Flummoxed
* Zhang Yimou’s Full River Red
* Eric McDonough and Matthew Buckley Smith
* The Chinese Song Dynasty
* The Jin-Song Wars
* “The Humiliation of Jingkang”
* Ci and Shi poetry
* Zhao Mengfu
* Li Qingzhao
* Li Bai
* Classical Chinese and Middle Chinese
* Arthur Waley’s A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems
* A.R. Davis’s The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse
* Qin Hui
* The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu
Other notes:
* All the translations in this episode are by me.
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The Flummoxed Podcast's intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio.
