Sung Po-jen was a Song dynasty poet and painter. He was the author of Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom (1238), the world’s first printed book of art and literature, which aims to train the eye not in technique but in perception.

“Tilting Bowl” illustrated by Sung Po-jen.

From “Dragonfly Landing”

by Sung Po-jen, translated by Red Pine

four wings of thinnest silk
without a trace of dust

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