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Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape

Product Description: Learning to see with the eyes of the ancient Chinese sages can change your view of the universe, as David Hinton demonstrates. He takes us on a series of walks up Hunger Mountain, a wilderness area near his home in Vermont. What he sees and describes about these outings is informed by the cosmos-view he's imbibed from his many years of translating Chinese poetry: a way of looking at nature, and our place in it, and a particular way of regarding the relationship between ourselves and the universe...read more

By David Hinton

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9781611800166 | Shambhala Pubns, November 13, 2012, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Learning to see with the eyes of the ancient Chinese sages can change your view of the universe, as David Hinton demonstrates.

Mencius

Product Description: The Confucian philosopher, Mencius (c.371-288 BC) explicated his master's moral principles and reinterpreted them for the harsh conditions of the 4th century BC, when they were threatened by the aggressive and amoral doctrines of legalism...read more

By Mencius

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9780559060182 | Lightning Source Inc, April 30, 2009, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: The Confucian philosopher, Mencius (c.

9780559060359 | Lightning Source Inc, April 30, 2009, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: The Confucian philosopher, Mencius (c.

9781887178624 | Counterpoint, September 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: This new translation makes the teachings of ancient Chinas second sage relevant for contemporary readers.

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9780559060236 | Lightning Source Inc, April 30, 2009, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: The Confucian philosopher, Mencius (c.

9780559060281 | Lightning Source Inc, April 30, 2009, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The Confucian philosopher, Mencius (c.

Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology

Product Description: With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world literature, and this rich and far-reaching anthology of nearly five hundred poems provides a comprehensive account of its first three millennia (1500 BCE to 1200 CE), the period during which virtually all its landmark developments took place...read more

By David Hinton (trans)

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9780374105365 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 14, 2008, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry.

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9780374531904 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 2, 2010), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry.

The Alfred Jewel and Other Late Anglo-saxon Decorated Metalwork: Ashmolean Handbook Series

Product Description: The characteristics of the precious metals, the enamel and crystal, aspects of craftsmanship, importation of materials, animals in Anglo Saxon art, language and inscription, and the Christian significance are only some of the themes sure to excite collectors and scholars.

By David Hinton

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9781854442291 | Ashmolean Museum, September 18, 2008, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The characteristics of the precious metals, the enamel and crystal, aspects of craftsmanship, importation of materials, animals in Anglo Saxon art, language and inscription, and the Christian significance are only some of the themes sure to excite collectors and scholars.

The Selected Poems of Wang Wei

A selection of definitive works by the acclaimed eighth-century Chinese writer offers insight into his mastery of the short imagistic landscape poem, his assiduous practice of Zen Buddhism, and ability to convey philosophical and sensory concepts in a style that has remained accessible to subsequent generations. Original.

By David Hinton and Wei Wang

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9780811216180 | New Directions, May 31, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A selection of definitive works by the acclaimed eighth-century Chinese writer offers insight into his mastery of the short imagistic landscape poem, his assiduous practice of Zen Buddhism, and ability to convey philosophical and sensory concepts in a style that has remained accessible to subsequent generations.

Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry Of Ancient China

Product Description: The earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, Mountain Home is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary. China's tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" poetry stretches across millennia...read more

By David Hinton (creator)

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9781582431499 | Counterpoint, November 1, 2002, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, this is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary.

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9780811216241 | New England Natural Resources, May 1, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, Mountain Home is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary.

Fossil Sky

Product Description: An epic poem in the form of a lyrical map, Fossil Sky is a remarkable creation of originality and beauty. Composed on a single large sheet, it liberates poetry from the conventions of page and book. Fossil Sky distills a year of walks taken near the poet’s home, tracing the paths a mind takes through landscape, history, and ideation...read more

By David Hinton (trans)

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9780972869270 | Archipelago Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: An epic poem in the form of a lyrical map, Fossil Sky is a remarkable creation of originality and beauty.

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan

Product Description: Meng Hao-jan (689–740 C.E.) is generally considered to be one of China’s most important poets, but there has never been an edition of his work in English. Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism was coming to maturity and becoming widely practiced among the intelligentsia of China...read more

By Meng Hao-Jan, David Hinton and Haoran Meng

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9780972869232 | Archipelago Books, February 1, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Meng Hao-jan (689–740 C.

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9781935744092 | Archipelago Books, February 1, 2004, cover price $14.00

The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry

Provides translations of more than two hundred-fifty poems by over forty poets, from early anonymous poetry through the T'ang and Sung dynasties. (view table of contents)

By David Hinton (trans), Ezra Pound (trans), Kenneth Rexroth (trans), Gary Snyder (trans), Eliot Weinberger (editor) and William Carlos Williams (trans)

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9780811215404 | New Directions, April 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Provides translations of more than two hundred-fifty poems by over forty poets, from early anonymous poetry through the T'ang and Sung dynasties.

The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-Yun

Product Description: In our own time the "wilderness" has emerged as a source of spiritual renewal, both as idea and in actual practice. But Hsieh Ling-yün (385-433 C. E.) was there before us. During the last decade of his life, living as a recluse high in the mountains of southeast China, he initiated a tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" (shan-shui) poetry that stretches across the millennia in China, a tradition that represents the earliest and most extensive literary engagement with "the wild" in human history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Hinton (trans), Hsieh Ling-Yun and Lingyun Xie

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9780811214896 | New Directions, November 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In our own time the "wilderness" has emerged as a source of spiritual renewal, both as idea and in actual practice.

At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996

Product Description: At the Sky's Edge combines in a single bilingual paperback volume two essential works by one of the world's finest contemporary poets. In his first retrospective volume of poetry in English, two of Bei Dao's previous books—Forms of Distance (1994) and Landscape Over Zero (1996)—are gathered together in one bilingual paperback edition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Beidao, Bei Dao, David Hinton (trans) and Michael Palmer (foreword by)

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9780811214957 | Bilingual edition (New Directions, September 1, 2001), cover price $15.95 | also contains At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 | About this edition: At the Sky's Edge combines in a single bilingual paperback volume two essential works by one of the world's finest contemporary poets.

The Analects: Confucius

Product Description: From the literary communitys most talented translator of Chinese, a compelling, contemporary rendition of Ancient Chinas most significant work.. Confucius failed in his lifetime to rescue a crumbling civilization with his teachings, but he was to become the most influential sage in human history...read more

By David Hinton (trans)

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9781582430386 | Counterpoint, September 17, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From the literary communitys most talented translator of Chinese, a compelling, contemporary rendition of Ancient Chinas most significant work.

Mencius

Product Description: This new translation makes the teachings of ancient Chinas second sage relevant for contemporary readers.. This ancient text records the teachings of Mencius, Chinas ya sheng , or second sage. A philosopher who worked in the fourth century b...read more

By David Hinton (trans)

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9781582430201 | Counterpoint, July 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This new translation makes the teachings of ancient Chinas second sage relevant for contemporary readers.

The Selected Poems of Po Chu-I

Product Description: In 1997 David Hinton was awarded the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from The Academy of American Poets. Generally acclaimed as one of China's greatest poets, Po Ch-i (772-846 C.E.) practiced a poetry of everyday human concerns and clear plain-spoken language...read more

By Po Chu-I, David Hinton (trans) and Chu-I Pai

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9780811214124 | New Directions, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In 1997 David Hinton was awarded the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from The Academy of American Poets.

Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters

Product Description: David Hintons compelling new translation of Chuang Tzus Inner Chapters makes these ancient texts from the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy accessible to contemporary readers. Standing alongside the Tao Te Ching as a founding text in the Taoist tradition, Chuang Tzu is highly readablewith a wild menagerie of characters and passages full of witty and engaging anecdotes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Hinton

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9781887178792 | Counterpoint, June 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: David Hintons compelling new translation of Chuang Tzus Inner Chapters makes these ancient texts from the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy accessible to contemporary readers.

Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters

Product Description: David Hinton's compelling new translation of Chuang Tzu's Inner Chapters makes these ancient texts from the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy accessible to contemporary readers. Standing alongside the Tao Te Ching as a founding text in the Taoist tradition, Chuang Tzu is believed to be the work of a Chinese sage by the same name...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Chuang-Tzu, David Hinton (trans) and Chuang Tzu

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9781887178341 | Counterpoint, June 1, 1997, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: David Hinton's compelling new translation of Chuang Tzu's Inner Chapters makes these ancient texts from the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy accessible to contemporary readers.

The Late Poems of Meng Chiao

Product Description: Late in life, Meng Chiao (AD 751-814) developed an experimental poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. This text contains a translation of these works, poetry which may be the most radical in the Chinese tradition. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Hinton and Chiao Meng

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9780691012377 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Late in life, Meng Chiao (AD 751-814) developed an experimental poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium.

The Late Poems of Meng Chiao

Product Description: Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.D. 751--814) developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. With the T'ang Dynasty crumbling, Meng's later work employed surrealist and symbolist techniques as it turned to a deep introspection...read more

By Meng Chiao, David Hinton and Chiao Meng

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9780691012360 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 23, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.

Landscape over Zero

Collects fifty poems in both Chinese and English that reflect futility, distance, and the possibility of love's renewal

By Yanbing Chen (trans), Bei Dao, David Hinton (trans) and Pei-Tao

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9780811213349 | New Directions, October 1, 1996, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Collects fifty poems in both Chinese and English that reflect futility, distance, and the possibility of love's renewal

The Selected Poems of Li Po

Gathers poems written by the eighth-century Chinese poet, and briefly discusses his life and influence on Asian poetry (view table of contents)

By David Hinton (trans), Bai Li, Po Li and Li Po

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9780811213233 | New Directions, May 1, 1996, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Gathers poems written by the eighth-century Chinese poet, and briefly discusses his life and influence on Asian poetry

Forms of Distance

A distinguished Chinese poet in Western exile since the events of Tiananmen Square moves beyond his previous works, which focus on the exile, to reflect upon personal and world history, emotion, individuality, and conflict.

By Bei Dao and David Hinton (trans)

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9780811212663 | New Directions, June 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A distinguished Chinese poet in Western exile since the events of Tiananmen Square moves beyond his previous works, which focus on the exile, to reflect upon personal and world history, emotion, individuality, and conflict.

The Selected Poems of T'Ao Ch'Ien

Product Description: Chinese, tr David Hinton (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By T'Ao Ch'Ien and David Hinton (trans)

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9781556590566 | Copper Canyon Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Chinese, tr David Hinton

Selected Poems of Tu Fu

Translated works of an eight-century Chinese poet, known for his innovations in language and structure

By Fu Du, Tu Fu and David Hinton (trans)

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9780811210997 | New Directions, May 1, 1989, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Translated works of an eight-century Chinese poet, known for his innovations in language and structure

Medieval Jewellery

By David Hinton

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9780852635766 | Shire Pubns, June 1, 1982, cover price $5.95

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