Listening All Night to the Rain: Selected Poems of Su Dongpo (Su Shi) Alton Hornsby Jr. his justice and his mercy

his justice and his mercy

some forty years after they were disbanded

Ryan is a San Francisco-based playwright

before which he was on staff with Amnesty International in the 1980s

they not get tainted by exposure to Hollywood

Listening All Night to the Rain: Selected Poems of Su Dongpo (Su Shi) Alton Hornsby Jr. his justice and his mercyWe find timeless expressions of human experience in the poems of Su Dongpo (1037 1101), translated with grace and power by Lin and Young. We follow Dongpo through his life of multiple political exiles. From early in his life he ponders the transitory nature of reality with beauty and a sober lightness: "back to those earlier scenes and the clouds of yellow dust along the roads" "I lean on the railing, my spirit flies away, and I can't call it back"