Listening to Tao Yuan Ming

Dennis Maloney’s exquisite new collection of poetry, Listening to Tao Yuan Ming, offers his superb versions (or ‘visions’ as he calls them) of Tao Yuan Ming’s seminal Twenty Poems After Drinking Wine as well as a sequence of delicate harmonizing poems-before the book concludes with its title section, a lyric album of powerful personal reflections. Listening to Tao Yuan Ming is nothing less than a deeply moving conversation across history and culture, as if we were fortunate enough to overhear these two marvelous poets sharing their wine, their times, and their poetry. –David St. John