Summary
The first collection of original poetry by the renowned nature writer and highly lauded translator of the Chinese classics.
Traveling today I found a river somewhere inside me, wondered how far it wanders there and how much sky it mirrors. All day long, wind and desert light, I followed that river’s distances …
Weaving mind and landscape together in meditations on sky and wind, ridgeline and horizon, existence and self, Desert marks David Hinton’s first collection of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781611805932 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1611805937 |
| Author: | David Hinton |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 381g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
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“A deft collection of short poems on the desert of the American West.”– Spirituality & Practice
“A deft collection of short poems on the desert of the American West.“—Spirituality & Practice”Desert is artfully composed by a poet fully attuned to his craft and to the sages who wrote before him. He successfully takes that tradition to the American desert, with meditative poems in which the writer is secondary to the magnificence of habitat.“—Rain Taxi Review of Books
About The Author
David Hinton
David Hinton’s many translations of classical Chinese poetry have earned wide acclaim for creating compelling contemporary poems that convey the texture and density of the originals. He is also the first translator in over a century to translate the five seminal masterworks of Chinese philosophy- I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Analects, and Mencius. Hinton has received many national awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, both major awards for poetry translation, and most recently, a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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