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 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
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