I link this every few years, because I love the site so much. The Stephen Owen version, my favourite, likely locked in a book title for me (though hard to go back that far and be sure!). (And yes, this is a Tang poet, and that book was Song-inspired.) clatterymachinery.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/l...

Li Bai drinking alone (with the moon, his shadow, & 43 translators)

The Tang poet Li Bai–a.k.a. Li Po, Li Bo and the Poet Immortal–left us over 1,000 poems. Besides these, he is also known by the way it is said he died. He supposedly drowned drunk, tryi…