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lnhammer ([personal profile] lnhammer) wrote 2022-09-12 05:52 pm (UTC)

I don't have a quick answer to that, as I've only just started diving into this (previous 1, previous 2), but the short answer is Yes.

Longer answer: the humongo* anthology Complete Tang Poems has two chapters of poems ascribed to 鬼, spirits of the dead. I started poking at this a couple weeks ago, and discovered some of this stuff is amazing, both folklorically and fannishly. I mean, there's a poem that was "thrown at" a general by a suit of armor -- I mean, who can resist that? No one -- and another "written in blood" on a wall. I've translated a dozen-plus so far and starting to post the first drafts. Per my usual mode, I'll post a compilation of more polished revisions in my other journal when I get enough -- I'm planning on the first such installment being my first thirteen poems, because ghosts.

* 49,000-odd poems covering 360 years.

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