Seven Poems
April, 1972
The poems of Mao Tse-tung are a personal-political autobiography. Alone among national leaders of the 20th Century, Mao has combined a powerful poetic imagination with a hard military mind. When he set down the principles of guerrilla warfare with which he conquered mainland China, he wrote them in terse, rhymed couplets. Has any other general in history turned his theory of fighting into verse?Although classical in form, the content of almost every poem is political. When he revisits his native...
