This week poetry club is starting Eighteen Songs of A Nomad Flute, a Tang picture scroll with poems in calligraphy about a Han-dynasty poetess who was bride-abducted in a raid's long, and eventually successful, quest to get home.
Luckily we have a good amount of context for this, in the form of:
1. a book with solid explication of what we're dealing with, poem by poem, and,