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Subject: CALLIGRAPHY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CALLIGRAPHY PRACTICE, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Practicing calligraphy, not noticing night has come
Last Line: There's a truth here not confined to calloigraphy practice; %let me write it in big letters for futu
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): Calligraphy


CELEBRATING HUANG'S ARRIVAL, by SHANG JINGLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For ten years I've lived behind locked doors among bramble
Last Line: Do I realize I am in the presence of a modern day xue tao
Subject(s): Calligraphy


HALL OF DRUNKEN INK, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All worry and woe in life begins
Last Line: And use it to stuff a quilt
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): Calligraphy; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


IT IS OUR FAMILY TRADITION IN BRUSHWORK TO STUDY GUANGYAO, by YANG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Liked to so many to the stalking tiger and leaping dragon
Subject(s): Calligraphy


SEAL SCRIPT IN STONE, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From cold cliff a cascade flies
Last Line: To su shun-qin and mei yao-chen
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): Calligraphy; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SHOOTING STAR, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a concussion / the mind severs the pain
Last Line: Shooting star.
Subject(s): Calligraphy; Life; Violence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 14, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A master of the brush and the sword
Last Line: What's left isn't worth saying
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Calligraphy; Chinese Literature; Swords


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 25, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Calligraphy unrestrained / physique robust enough
Last Line: I'll teach you magic mushroom songs
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Calligraphy; Chinese Literature