Summary: Born in Arkansas to artistic "back to the land" parents who were interested in Zen Buddhism, Jonathan Stalling began to seriously study the Chinese language at age 13. Now, he is a translator of Chinese poets such as Shi Zhi and the Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma, where he also teaches. Stalling discusses how China's oral poetic tradition has informed and shaped his own books, and shares w...
