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Lu Yu | Al Purdy

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On the day of Lu Yu's last sickness a thin coffin was ready, and two quilts to cover him, and the gravediggers paid their work done. Then he started to write another poem a short time before death, about drinking wine again in the village — He was working on the poem when they buried him, so that half a line protruded from the earth in wind and weather's hearing — With sunlight touching the first young syllables, the last ones flowering from a dark coffin: "marketplace the in/drink more One" The first three words above ground the last ones wine in the Red Dust. Near the village of Shanyang in Chekiang Province... Poem 1 | Poem 2 | Poem 3 | Poem 4 | Poem 5 | Poem 6 Al Purdy's works copyright © to The Estate of Al Purdy.

Canadian Poetry Online | University of Toronto Libraries | Al Purdy UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LINKS Canadian Poets, Contemporary Canadian Poets, 19th Century Representative Poetry Online Al Purdy : Poems Biography / Poet Home | Poems | Writing Philosophy | Publications | Criticism | Other Information Lu Yu (AD 1125-1209) Al Purdy From: Beyond Remembering - The collected poems of Al Purdy . 2000. On the day of Lu Yu's last sickness a thin coffin was ready, and two quilts to cover him, and the gravediggers paid their work done. Then he started to write another poem a short time before death, about d

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