Over on poetryvlog.com — a great site which publishes a weekly video reading of poetry by the poet — is this week featuring Ahadada’s own Burton Watson reading selection from Lu You, The Old Man Who Does as He Pleases.

These productions are presented by Michael Mart and George Wallace. The video itself was shot and provided by Ahadada bud Joe Zanghi.

Click here to check it out!

Burton Watson is one of the world’s best-known translators of Chinese and Japanese literature. He has taught at Columbia, Stanford, and Kyoto Universities and now lives in Tokyo. He is the winner of the PEN Translation Prize and in 2005 was awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters Prize in literature. His numerous translations include The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry (1984), with Hiroaki Sato, From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1981) and, Late Poems of Lu You, The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases (2007).