The Selected Poems of Yang Wan-li
$43.05
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2026
Summary
An expansive selection of poems from the last giant of classical Chinese poetry’s golden age, Yang Wan-li (1127-1206 c.e.), masterfully translated by David Hinton.
A typical Yang Wan-li poem attends to immediate experience with profound clarity, and this attention usually leads to a moment of sudden awakening—a startling image or turn of thought, a surprising imaginative gesture, a twist of humor. As a government official, Yang undertook many long and arduous journeys that exposed him…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781645475002 |
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| ISBN-10: | 164547500X |
| Author: | David Hinton |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Praise for David Hinton’s Chinese poetry translations
“He continues to enlarge our literary horizon.”
―Rosemary Waldrop, citation for the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
“Given the magnitude of his ability and his overall project, Hinton is creating nothing less than a new literary tradition in English, an event of truly major importance not only to English literature but also to the literature of my own language. I cannot recommend the value of his work too highly.”
―Bei Dao
“Hinton’s achievement is a gift to our language.”
—W. S. Merwin
“David Hinton is the best English-language translator of classic Chinese poetry we have, and have had for decades.”
—The American Academy of Arts and Letters
“He has been building, translation by translation, an English language for the Chinese conceptual world.”
—The New York Review of Books
About The Author
David Hinton
David Hinton has published numerous books of poetry and essays, and many translations of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy. His work is informed by an abiding interest in deep ecological thinking. This widely acclaimed work has earned Hinton a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous fellowships from the NEA and NEH, and both of the major awards given for poetry translation in the United States: the Landon Translation Award (Academy of American Poets) and the PEN American Translation Award. Most recently, Hinton received a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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