Always Mystic

Mystic Taoist Poems of Li Po

Episode Summary

Li Po, a Taoist Mystic that lived from 701 to 762 A.D., has been called one of Greatest Poets in China. Like Hafiz and Rumi, most of his beautiful poems were embroidered with numerous, colorful mystical metaphors - that require mystic knowledge to understand the experiences that he was actually writing about.

Episode Notes

Entire Contents Copyright 2021 by Greg R. Leveille     All Rights Reserved.

Includes a few  poems from "The Selected Poems of Li Po" by David Hinton.  Entire Contents Copyright 1996 by David Hinton.  All Rights Reserved.