Poems translated and introduced by Hugh Gordon Porteus
Readers:
Anthony Jacobs and Alan Wheatley
Production by Anthony Thwaite
Li Ho was born into a noble but impoverished family living in Ch'ang-ku, in the Honan countryside, in A.D. 791. Hugh Gordon Porteus comments: Because he wrote so much of ghosts and haunted places, and because of the apparition which is alleged to have spoken to him on his early deathbed ... Li Ho has been called " The Ghost Poet." ' He died in the year 817.