Recent Reads: Mark Edward Lewis, Huan Kuan 桓宽, and Guoyu (Discourses of the States) @davidnovakreadspoetry

Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

I misspoke: Discourse of Salt and Iron has 60 chapters, of which 28 are presently available in English translation.

Books finished:

The Construction of Space in Early China by Mark Edward Lewis
Discourse on Salt and Iron by Huan Kuan, translated by Esson M. Gale
Guoyu (Discourses on the States)

Currently reading:
Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan

Recent Reads: Mark Edward Lewis, Huan Kuan 桓宽, and Guoyu (Discourses of the States)

Wherein I Read My Essay from 2009 (Touching on Bloch, Szpilman, Karski, and the Scholls)

Abraham Lincoln’s Farewell Address in Springfield

Recent Reads: The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, Ling Shu, Annals of Wu & Yue

A Poetry Reading to Commemorate the One-Year Anniversary of the Publication of Against Fascism

Recent Reads: Zuozhuan / Zuo Tradition, The Annals of Lü Buwei, The Huainanzi

Poetry Thursday (After Facer): A Victober Miscellany (Hopkins, Barrett Browning & Rossetti)

A Poem from the Western Zhou and Some Context

Update or Addendum to My Last Ramble: Further Thoughts into Plans for Next Year

Recent Reads: Chan-Kuo Ts’e, The Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan, Guiguzi