Mao Zedong leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the PeoplesRepublic of China was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary graceand eloquent ... » 

Mao Zedong leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the PeoplesRepublic of China was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary graceand eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition from the 1963Beijing edition translated and introduced by Willis Barnstone areexpressions of decades of struggle the painful loss of his first wife hishope for a new China and his ultimate victory over the Nationalist forces.Willis Barnstones introduction his short biography of Mao and brief historyof the revolution and his notes on Chinese versification all combine to enrichthe Western readers understanding of Maos poetry. «