\[ **broader terms: [[China]] | [[Chinese literature]] | [[poetry]]** ] --- # Chinese poetry ## Chinese poetry and the English language [[Tony Barnstone writes, ‘To make a Chinese poem in English we must allow silence to seep in around the edges, to define the words the way the sky’s negative space in a painting defines the mountains.’]][^1] [^1]: Tony Barnstone, ‘Preface’, in *[[Barnstone and Ping, The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry, 2005|The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, the Full 3000-Year Tradition]]*, eds. Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping (Anchor Books, 2005), p. xliv. Internet Archive, [https://archive.org/details/anchorbookofchin00barn](https://archive.org/details/anchorbookofchin00barn).