DAVID HINTON Chinese Poetry
In spite of Meng Hao-jan's stature in the Chinese tradition, this is the first edition of his work in English.
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| The Mountain Poems of 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: Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Po Chü-i. 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. In spite of Meng Hao-jan's stature in the Chinese tradition, this is the first edition of his work in English. Archipelago Books Sample Poems |
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