The mountain poems of Meng Hao-jan / translated by David Hinton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meng, Haoran, 689-740.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Hinton, David, 1954-

Standardized Title:

Poems. English

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Meng, Haoran, 689-740--Translations into English.

Meng, Haoran.

Meng, Haoran, 689-740.

Genre:

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 81 pages : map ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Archipelago Books, 2004.

Summary:

Meng Hao-jan (689740 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 hisperception. . . . 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

Contents:

Autumn Begins

Gathering Firewood

Listening to Cheng Yin Play His Ch'in

Adrift on North Creek

Climbing Long-View Mountain's Highest Peak

Looking for the Recluse Chang Tzu-jung at White-Crane Cliff

Adrift on a Summer's Day, I Visit the Hermitage of Recluse T'eng

Inscribed on a Wall at Li's Farm, for Ch'i-wu Ch'ien

On Reaching the Ju River Dikes, Sent to My Friend Lu

On Reaching the Han River

Roaming up to Master Jung's Hermitage ...

Visiting the Hermitage of Ch'an Monk Jung

Returning to My Garden at Night after Looking for Chang Wu

On the Tower at Uphold All-Gathering Monastery

In Lo-yang, Stopping by to Visit Yuan Kuan without Finding Him

Looking for T'eng's Old Recluse Home

Traveling to Yueh, I Linger Out Farewell with Chang and Shen

7/7 in a Strange Village

Anchoring Overnight at Ox Island ...

Down the Kan River Rapids

9/9 at Dragon-Sands, Sent to Liu

Stopping Overnight at Date-Brights Inn

Autumn Night, Setting Moon

Looking for Mei, Sage Master of Way

Early Plums

At Lumen-Empty Monastery, Visiting Dharma-Guile ...

Encountering Snow on the Road to Ch'ang-an

Overnight at Kingfisher-Hue Monastery ...

Outside the Capital, Farewell to Acrid-Expanse

Lingering Out Farewell with Wang Wei

Year's-End, On Returning to Southern Mountains

Sent to Ch'ao, the Palace Reviser

A Farewell for Tu Huang

Spending the Night at Abbot Yeh's Mountain Home ...

At Lumen-Empty Monastery, Visiting the Hermitage of ...

After Chang Yuan's Clear Mirror Lament.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 81).

Other Format:

Online version: Meng, Haoran, 689-740. Poems. English. Mountain poems of Meng Hao-jan.

ISBN:

0972869239

9780972869232

OCLC:

53038784

Online:

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