J. P. Seaton: Books: Shambhala Publications

J. P. Seaton

J. P. Seaton is the professor emeritus of Chinese at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He now lives in retirement with his wife, Kathy, in the piedmont of North Carolina. His translations of classical Chinese poetry are the most widely anthologized in the English language. He edits a web magazine of current translations, Welling Out of Silence, at poetrychina.net.

Bright Moon, White Clouds

Selected Poems of Li Po

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Li Po

His work is one of the glories of Chinese poetry’s golden age, and it has not ceased to delight readers in the twelve centuries since. Li Po (701–762) wrote of the pleasures of nature, of wine, and of the life… Read More

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Cold Mountain Poems

Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih

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Han Shan

Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, T’ang-era rebel poet Han Shan is an icon of Chinese poetry and Zen. He and his sidekick, Shih Te, are known as the laughing, ragged pair… Read More

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The Essential Chuang Tzu

translated by
J. P. Seaton,
Sam Hamill

The Chuang Tzu has been translated into English numerous times, but never with the freshness, accessibility, and accuracy of this remarkable rendering. Here the immediacy of Chuang Tzu's language is restored in a idiom… Read More
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The Poetry of Zen

edited by
Sam Hamill,
J. P. Seaton

A Zen poem is nothing other than an expression of the enlightened mind, a handful of simple words that disappear beneath the moment of insight to which it bears witness. Poetry has been an essential aid… Read More

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The Shambhala Anthology of Chinese Poetry

edited by
J. P. Seaton

In traditional Chinese culture, poetic artistry held a place that was unrivaled by any other single talent, and was a source of prestige and even of political power. In this rich collection, J. P. Seaton introduces the reader to the… Read More
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