The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan Brilliant translations of the work of one of ancient China's most influential poets. An early Taoist master.
Full description- Publisher: ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS
- Published: 04 February 2010
- Format: Paperback 81 pages
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- Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets | Literary Studies: General | Asian History
- ISBN 13: 9780972869232 ISBN 10: 0972869239
- Sales rank: 392,202
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Full description for The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan
Meng Hao-jan (689-740 C.E.) is generally considered to be one of China's most important poets, but there has never been an edition of his work in English. Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism was coming to maturity and becoming widely practiced among the intelligentsia of China. Ch'an not only clarified anew the spiritual ecology of early Taoist thought, it also emphasized the old Taoist idea that deep understanding lies beyond words. In poetry, this gave rise to a much more distilled language, especially in its concise imagism, which opened new inner depths, nonverbal insights, and outright enigma. It was in the work of Meng Hao-jan that this poetic revolution began, a revolution that marked the beginning of Chinese poetry's first great flowering. He opened the poetic ground that would be cultivated so productively by the great poets that followed, and he was revered by those poets as their esteemed elder, first master of the short imagistic landscape poem.David Hinton's (Translator) many translations of ancient Chinese poetry have earned wide acclaim for creating compelling contemporary poetry. He is also the first translator in over a century to translate the four original masterworks of Chinese philosophy: "Tao Te Ching," "Chuang Tzu," "Analects," and "Mencius." He has held numerous fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and The -National Endowment for the Humanities. And in 1997, his work was awarded the Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. He lives in East Calais, Vermont."Hinton's music is subtle, modulated, and does not slacken with either contemporary or classic. He has listened to the individual tone of each poet, and his craft is equal to his perception. . . . He continues to enlarge our literary horizon. And the 'range of pleasure' his translations afford 'as sight, sound, and intellection, ' proves them true poems. Poems that breathe another culture into our English."--The Academy of American Poets
