Well, maybe, but you gotta be Ezra Pound quality poet to make it work, right?
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he once claimed to be reading a book of Chinese poetry while holding it upside down.
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He may have been a fascist, but as Bill Knott quipped, "at least he made the quatrains run on time."
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He’s an amazing imagist poet. See Amy Lowell as well I believe
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Characters, not letters.
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Not that different from Constance Garnett's technique for Russian or Lowe-Porter's for German.
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Not sure but I think he had help, I know this was true of Arthur Waley.
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Chinese poetry is not at all like spoken Chinese, I understand. Even native speakers need years & years of study and much learned commentary. Using a crib is very understandable.
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He did the same with translations out of Old English but used the sounds instead of characters for the flow.
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