CHINA POETRY: a MAO ZEDONG primer

Mainly known throughout the world as a military and political strategist, Mao Zedong was also an accomplished calligrapher and widely respected poet. His writing sampled a variety of China's poetry modes. They make use of different of its line lengths, forms, styles, meter and word play.

As activities regularly took him back and forth across China's sprawling landscape, many of its natural beauties came to find expression in Mao's writing. Moreover, a side of him not usually detailed to the public, Mao was a devoted husband, father, and...