Wang An-shih (1021-1086 C.E.) was a remarkable figure not only one
of the great Sung Dynasty poets, but also the most influential and
controversial statesman of his time. Although he had little
interest in the grandeur of high office and political power, Wang
rose to no less a position than Prime Minister. As Prime Minister,
he instituted a controversial system of radically egalitarian
social reforms in an effort to improve the lives of China s
dispossessed peasants. Wang then left politics and followed his
true interest retiring to a reclusive life of artistic and
spiritual self-cultivation. It was after his retirement that Wang
An-shih wrote the poems on which his reputation is based. Wang
spent those later years practicing Ch an (Zen) Buddhism and
wandering the mountains around his home, and that Taoist/Ch an
cultivation of the rivers-and-mountains realm shapes his poems.
These late poems are short and plain-spoken, but always with
profound resonances. They won him wide acclaim across the centuries
in China and beyond; and here he enters English for the first time,
feeling like a major contemporary poet who is especially
interesting for the deeply ecological approach of his poetic
thinking."
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