A repackaged version of Frank Kuppner's celebrated first collection "A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty (1984)" with a different tone - something to do with maturity and cadencing, which make the laughter and heartbreak more intense, more political.
The 501 quatrains which constitute Frank Kuppner's text may make it seem like a repackaged version of his first collection. This work, however, provides a different tone.
