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The Selected Poems of Wang Wei

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Availability:In StockContributor:Wang Wei, David HintonPublish date:2006-06-28Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811216180ISBN-10:811216187UPC:9780811216180Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AsianAward:2007 Literary Award Winner - Poetry in Translation AwardSize:8.96 x 6.14 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCR0CDJJTP
Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China's 3,000-year poetic tradition. Of the three, Wang was the consummate master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify classical Chinese poetry. He developed a nature poetry of resounding tranquility wherein deep understanding goes far beyond the words on the page--a poetics that can be traced to his assiduous practice of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. But in spite of this philosophical depth, Wang is not a difficult poet. Indeed, he may be the most immediately appealing of China's great poets, and in Hinton's masterful translations he sounds utterly contemporary. Many of his best poems are incredibly concise, composed of only twenty words, and they often turn on the tiniest details: a bird's cry, a splinter of light on moss, an egret's wingbeat. Such imagistic clarity is not surprising since Wang was also one of China's greatest landscape painters. This is a breathtaking poetry, one that in true Zen fashion renders the ten thousand things of this world in such a way that they empty the self even as they shimmer with the clarity of their own self-sufficient identity.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811216180ISBN-10:811216187UPC:9780811216180Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AsianAward:2007 Literary Award Winner - Poetry in Translation AwardSize:8.96 x 6.14 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCR0CDJJTP
Hinton, David: - DAVID HINTON's original Selected Poems of Tu Fu was the first full-length verse translation of Tu Fu published in America. The author also of singular books of essays and poetry, Hinton has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous N.E.A. and N.E.H fellowships, both major awards given for poetry translation in the United States, and a lifetime achievement award by The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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🏆 2007 Literary Award Winner - Poetry in Translation Award

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