Best chinese poetry books according to redditors

http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Yoda-Based-Upon-Ching/dp/0983309922/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1458380046&sr=8-2&keywords=the+dharma+of+star+wars

Bonus!

John Blofeld's introduction to Red Pine's The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain.

I found a copy of 'Selected Poems' by Xu Zhimo, so that's a start. I think a lot of the other works you're looking for haven't been translated yet. I did a quick search but it doesn't look like there's an English translation of 象牙戒指. There's copies of Shi's work on amazon but none in English. You might be out of luck for some of them, there isn't a huge market for Chinese to English translations of poetry, especially.

edit: just as a side note, amazon suggests "shipping men" for shi pingmei. um, no, amazon, i most definitely did not mean that

A while back I watched this really interesting video on Han Shan’s life and work: https://youtu.be/R3OWTwGdGmo

Red Pine is in the video, who translated a lot of Han Shan’s poetry: The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain (Mandarin Chinese and English Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1556591403/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ilqhDb0P6T9BA

I think Asian poetry should be your go to for this.
Chinese:
[Hanshan] (https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Mountain-Mandarin-Chinese-English/dp/1556591403/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481519439&sr=8-1&keywords=hanshan)
[Libai and Dufu] (https://www.amazon.com/Li-Po-Tu-Translated-Introduction/dp/0140442723/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1481519506&sr=8-3&keywords=li+po)
[Tao Yuanming] (https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poems-Tao-Chien/dp/1556590563/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481519544&sr=8-1&keywords=Tao+qian)
and Japanese:
[Saigyo] (https://www.amazon.com/Saigyo/dp/023107493X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481519595&sr=8-1&keywords=Saigyo)
[Basho] (https://www.amazon.com/Narrow-Road-Interior-Writings-Shambhala/dp/1570627169/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1481519621&sr=8-3&keywords=Basho)
[Ryokan] (https://www.amazon.com/Dewdrops-Lotus-Leaf-Poems-Ryokan/dp/1590301080/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1481519642&sr=8-4&keywords=Ryokan)

http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Mountain-Mandarin-Chinese-English/dp/1556591403/

It's my pleasure and I hope you enjoy it!

After that, if you haven't already, maybe you can check out Cold Mountain

> "Nothing came into being at my birth, nothing will cease to be when I die... I can face all that may come with laughing equanimity, never sure that a change for the so-called worse (including death) will not turn out to be a change for the so-called better. If it does not turn out that way, that's fine too, for a realized Taoist is too wise to take opposites such as better or worse at all seriously.
> I am soon to become an emperor-ha-ha-ha-ha! I am destined to be a lousy beggar – ha-ha-ha-ha! It’s all a game. Any part will suit me fine. You are going to give me a thirty-two course (plus side dishes) Chinese banquet? Thanks, I’ll enjoy that. We have only a bowl or two of inferior-quality boiled rice for dinner? That will go down very nicely. We have nothing on which to dine? Splendid, we shall have more time to sit outside and enjoy the moonlight, with music provided by the wind in the pines.
> ...Youth passes – so does spring. Old age comes – so do winter’s lovely snowscapes and the kettles bubbling over glowing charcoal. I’m bursting with energy, so I’ll jog or climb Mount Hua. I’m too ill to move, so I’ll enjoy my warm bed and meditate. My wife loves me; “O what joys behind hibiscus curtainsl” My wife has left me; how peaceful it is now. Old Wang has a delicious concubine. I have a charming blue-eyed cat. Reagan is delighted with his new aeroplane. I have fun with my old bamboo raft. I find that I can sleep in only one bedroom at a time and that my old wadded gown sits lighter than fur. While you sit watching pictures on your color TV set, I stand gazing at ripples in a moonlit pond, thanking the gods for not interrupting with commercials. You are a funny creature; so am I- ha-ha! Who isn’t?"

-The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain