[http://www.poesia-inter.net/indexpn.htm Original poems] - It includes some translations and audio files. All poems are sourced

[http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/li_ching_chao/poems Li Ching Chao Poems and Poetry] at Famous Poets and Poems

[https://www.poemhunter.com/kakinomoto-no-asomi-hitomaro/ Kakinomoto no Asomi Hitomaro Poems] at Poem Hunter

His poems generally known as the Luzumiyat arrest attention by their boldness and originality as well as by the sombre and earnest tone which pervades them.

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What is a homeland? It is a place that enables people to blossom, and not a place in which people serve the flag. In my poem, Cease-fire with the Mongolians, I say that I am going to make socks out of the flag. My life's work is not on behalf of a flag.

Li Yi-an was the greatest poetess of China. Once her husband asked one of his friends to pick out the best lines that he liked from a number of his poems, having, however, concealed in them some pieces by his wife. The friend picked out, to his dismay, only lines from her pen.

I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin's prose. It liberated me as a writer. These poems overwhelm without competing with his prose, and I am grateful to have this collection.