This new book of poems set in China by Willis Barnstone is an odyssey of an American poet's spiritual awakening in new and old China.

Willis Barnstone's China poems, though some have taken the form of song or sonnet, have the savor of immediate experience. They are personal, but they are also the poems of a man vitalized by another land and rejuvenated by its strangeness. Barnstone responds throughout to two Chinas: that of the everyday present, and that of the Tang poets, whose observant clarity inspires his best, most pungent evocations of China today.
--Richard Wilbur