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J. P. Seaton

J. P. Seaton is Professor of Chinese at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has served since 1968. He is the translator of numerous books, and his poetry translations have been widely anthologized. 

Titles by J. P. Seaton

Cold Mountain Poems
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Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih
Translated by J. P. Seaton
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The incomparable poetry of Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, has long captured the imagination of poetry...

The Essential Chuang Tzu
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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 that is both completely fresh and true to the original text. This unique...

The Poetry of Zen
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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 to Zen Buddhist practice from the dawn of Zen—and Zen has also had a profound...

The Poetry of Zen
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PO CHU-I
(772–846)

After Reading Lao Tzu

"One who speaks does not know; one who knows does not speak."
Thus I have been instructed by the Old Master.

If you tell me the Old Master was one who knew, I ask,
Why did he write five thousand words to explain...

The Shambhala Anthology of Chinese Poetry
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Edited by J. P. Seaton
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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 main styles of Chinese poetry and the major poets, from the classic...

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