COPYRIGHT © 2019 BY HA JIN

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to The Permissions Company, Inc. on behalf of Copper Canyon Press for permission to reprint an excerpt of “Tu Fu to Li Po” from Cool, Calm and Collected: Poems 1960–2000 by Carolyn Kizer. Copyright © Carolyn Kizer. Reprinted permission of The Permissions Company, Inc. on behalf of Copper Canyon Press (www.coppercanyonpress.org).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Name: Jin, Ha, [date] author.

Title: The banished immortal : a life of Li Bai (Li Po) / Ha Jin.

Other titles: Life of Li Bai (Li Po)

Description: New York : Pantheon, 2019. Chinese versions of his poetry will be included. Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018024328. ISBN 9781524747411 (hardback). ISBN 9781524747428 (ebook).

Subjects: LCSH: Li Bai, 701–762. Poets, Chinese—Biography. Li Bai, 701–762—Criticism and interpretation. BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM/Poetry. HISTORY/Asia/China.

Classification: LCC PL2671 .J554 2019 | DDC 895.11/3 [B] —dc23 | LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/​2018024328

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