#AmReading THE BANISHED IMMORTAL: A LIFE OF LI BAI by #HaJin, who mentions Li Bai's calligraphy skills:
"The lettering is extraordinarily robust & beautiful & floating, displaying the writer's innate radiance. These characters show the work of a master calligrapher with a striking, unique style. Judging by the bold beauty of his calligraphy, Li Bai must have been spiritually free & physically strong."
Now conflating #LiBai with Wang Bo Zhao's character in the film ROMANCE OF THE CALLIGRAPHER.
The two friends in Osborne's novel met at Cambridge & bonded over the poetry of #LiBai, whose poem "The Exile's Letter", says the narrator, "was the greatest single poem about friendship ever written outside Homer."
I have my own fondly remembered but failed friendship forged through books. We met in a pub & bonded over the prose of Jane Bowles. But that was a lifetime ago..
Inspired to read more about Li Bai, am turning next to THE BANISHED IMMORTAL a biography of the poet by #HaJin.
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