The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan
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Publisher : Archipelago
Total Pages : 97
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ISBN-10 : 9781935744092
ISBN-13 : 1935744097
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan by : Meng Hao-Jan

The first full flowering of Chinese poetry occurred in the illustrious T’ang Dynasty, and at the beginning of this renaissance stands Meng Hao-jan (689-740 c.e.), esteemed elder to a long line of China’s greatest poets. Deeply influenced by Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, Meng was the first to make poetry from the Ch’an insight that deep understanding lies beyond words. The result was a strikingly distilled language that opened new inner depths, non-verbal insights, and outright enigma. This made Meng Hao-jan China’s first master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify ancient Chinese poetry. And as a lifelong intimacy with mountains dominates Meng’s work, such innovative poetics made him a preeminent figure in the wilderness (literally rivers-and-mountains) tradition, and that tradition is the very heart of Chinese poetry. This is the first English translation devoted to the work of Meng Hao-jan. Meng’s poetic descendents revered the wisdom he cultivated as a mountain recluse, and now we too can witness the sagacity they considered almost indistinguishable from that of rivers and mountains themselves.

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9780972869232
ISBN-13 : 0972869239
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan by : Meng Hao-Jan

The first full flowering of Chinese poetry occurred in the illustrious T’ang Dynasty, and at the beginning of this renaissance stands Meng Hao-jan (689-740 c.e.), esteemed elder to a long line of China’s greatest poets. Deeply influenced by Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, Meng was the first to make poetry from the Ch’an insight that deep understanding lies beyond words. The result was a strikingly distilled language that opened new inner depths, non-verbal insights, and outright enigma. This made Meng Hao-jan China’s first master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify ancient Chinese poetry. And as a lifelong intimacy with mountains dominates Meng’s work, such innovative poetics made him a preeminent figure in the wilderness (literally rivers-and-mountains) tradition, and that tradition is the very heart of Chinese poetry. This is the first English translation devoted to the work of Meng Hao-jan. Meng’s poetic descendents revered the wisdom he cultivated as a mountain recluse, and now we too can witness the sagacity they considered almost indistinguishable from that of rivers and mountains themselves.

Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China

Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9780811224420
ISBN-13 : 0811224422
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China by : David Hinton

The earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, Mountain Home is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary. China's tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" poetry stretches across millennia. This is a plain-spoken poetry of immediate day-to-day experience, and yet seems most akin to China's grand landscape paintings. Although its wisdom is ancient, rooted in Taoist and Zen thought, the work feels utterly contemporary, especially as rendered here in Hinton's rich and accessible translations. Mountain Home collects poems from 5th- through 13th-century China and includes the poets Li Po, Po Chu-i and Tu Fu. The "rivers-and-mountains" tradition covers a remarkable range of topics: comic domestic scenes, social protest, travel, sage recluses, and mountain landscapes shaped into forms of enlightenment. And within this range, the poems articulate the experience of living as an organic part of the natural world and its processes. In an age of global ecological disruption and mass extinction, this tradition grows more urgently important every day. Mountain Home offers poems that will charm and inform not just readers of poetry, but also the large community of readers who are interested in environmental awareness.

The Late Poems of Meng Chiao

The Late Poems of Meng Chiao
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 103
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ISBN-10 : 9780691217727
ISBN-13 : 0691217726
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Late Poems of Meng Chiao by : Meng Chiao

Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.D. 751--814) developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. With the T'ang Dynasty crumbling, Meng's later work employed surrealist and symbolist techniques as it turned to a deep introspection. This is truly major work-- work that may be the most radical in the Chinese tradition. And though written more than a thousand years ago, it is remarkably fresh and contemporary. But, in spite of Meng's significance, this is the first volume of his poetry to appear in English. Until the age of forty, Meng Chiao lived as a poet-recluse associated with Ch'an (Zen) poet-monks in south China. He then embarked on a rather unsuccessful career as a government official. Throughout this time, his poetry was decidedly mediocre, conventional verse inevitably undone by his penchant for the strange and surprising. After his retirement, Meng developed the innovative poetry translated in this book. His late work is singular not only for its bleak introspection and "avant-garde" methods, but also for its dimensions: in a tradition typified by the short lyric poem, this work is made up entirely of large poetic sequences.

The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yün

The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yün
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 102
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ISBN-10 : 0811214893
ISBN-13 : 9780811214896
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yün by : Lingyun Xie

In our own time the "wilderness" has emerged as a source of spiritual renewal, both as idea and in actual practice. But Hsieh Ling-yün (385-433 C. E.) was there before us.

Classical Chinese Poetry

Classical Chinese Poetry
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 597
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ISBN-10 : 9781466873223
ISBN-13 : 1466873221
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Classical Chinese Poetry by : David Hinton

With this groundbreaking collection Classical Chinese Poetry, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world literature, and this rich and far-reaching anthology of nearly five hundred poems provides a comprehensive account of its first three millennia (1500 BCE to 1200 CE), the period during which virtually all its landmark developments took place. Unlike earlier anthologies of Chinese poetry, Hinton's book focuses on a relatively small number of poets, providing selections that are large enough to re-create each as a fully realized and unique voice. New introductions to each poet's work provide a readable history, told for the first time as a series of poetic innovations forged by a series of master poets. From the classic texts of Chinese philosophy to intensely personal lyrics, from love poems to startling and strange perspectives on nature, Hinton has collected an entire world of beauty and insight. And in his eye-opening translations, these ancient poems feel remarkably fresh and contemporary, presenting a literature both radically new and entirely resonant, in Classical Chinese Poetry.

Hunger Mountain

Hunger Mountain
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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9781611800166
ISBN-13 : 1611800161
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Hunger Mountain by : David Hinton

Come along with David Hinton on a series of walks through the wild beauty of Hunger Mountain, near his home in Vermont—excursions informed by the worldview he’s imbibed from his many years translating the classics of Chinese poetry and philosophy. His broad-ranging discussion offers insight on everything from the mountain landscape to the origins of consciousness and the Cosmos, from geology to Chinese landscape painting, from parenting to pictographic oracle-bone script, to a family chutney recipe. It’s a spiritual ecology that is profoundly ancient and at the same time resoundingly contemporary. Your view of the landscape—and of your place in it—may never be the same.

The Selected Poems of Li Po

The Selected Poems of Li Po
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 0811213234
ISBN-13 : 9780811213233
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis The Selected Poems of Li Po by : Bai Li

There is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: "Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao." He moved through this world with an unearthly freedom from attachment, and at the same time belonged profoundly to the earth and its process of change. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in the everyday experience we all share. He wrote 1200 years ago, half a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed. Legendary friends in eighth-century T'ang China, Li Po and Tu Fu are traditionally celebrated as the two greatest poets in the Chinese canon. David Hinton's translation of Li Po's poems is no less an achievement than his critically acclaimed The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, also published by New Directions. By reflecting the ambiguity and density of the original, Hinton continues to create compelling English poems that alter our conception of Chinese poetry.

A Drifting Boat

A Drifting Boat
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Publisher : White Pine Press
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 1877727377
ISBN-13 : 9781877727375
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis A Drifting Boat by : Jerome P. Seaton

Poetry. This anthology gathers together over 1500 years of Chinese Zen (Ch'an) poetry from the earliest writing, including the Hsin Hsin Ming written by the 3rd Patriarch, to the poetry of monks in this century. Poets include Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Yuan Mei, the crazy hermits Han-shan and Shih-te, as well as many anonymous monks and hermits.

The Poetry of Meng Hao-jan

The Poetry of Meng Hao-jan
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 438
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105011693640
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Synopsis The Poetry of Meng Hao-jan by : James Whipple Miller