If you would like to HEAR that poem (i.e. Zhang Ji’s “Night Mooring at Maple

Bridge”) read in Chinese, by the way, you can go to this

web page, scroll down to “Zhang Ji,”

then click on the poem above his name.

It’s not a good reading, though, in my opinion — doesn’t have the half

awake, half dreaming quality the written poem has. The reader sounds like a

gym instructor conducting a calisthenics session right after learning that

she’s inherited a modest sum of money.

I have a number of CDs of Chinese poetry being read, and most of them sound

like that. I blame Communism.