Poetry. Translation. Asian Studies. This unique book include poetry and prose by Mike O'Connor concerning the Civil War, as well as his translations of poetry by Chia Tao, Chang Chi, Ch'iu Wei and others."Like Hart Crane's "The Bridge," this book follows the poet's dreams across a landscape of lives lived and forgotten and pieced together again, like so many shards of a Grecian urn. Or it is Anasazi? T'ang? No matter. Here restored, it now hold tea"-Bill Porter, aka Red Pine.