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Li Pai:
200 Selected Poems

1 guy, (Li Bai aka Li Pai aka Li Po), walks in a bar…

…Pai…(instead of: “…Po…”)

…pink cover, (check)…art plates, (check),

reviews (double-check):

Obata’s Po’s “definitive”;

Alley’s Pai’s “decorative”.

Link source, notes
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Both links are retrieved from archive.org):

Li, Bai. The Works of Li-Po, the Chinese Poet. Done Into English Verse by Shigeyoshi Obata, With an Introduction and Biographical and Critical Matter Translated From the Chinese, 1928. Retrieved from archive.org

Li, Bai. Li Pai: 200 Selected Poems. Joint, 1980.

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