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Wilds of Poetry: Adventures in Mind and Landscape

The Wilds of Poetry: Adventures in Mind and Landscape

By David Hinton

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Shambhala Publications

Pages: 328
Size: 6 in x 9 in
ISBN: 9781611804607

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Henry David Thoreau, in The Maine Woods, describes a moment on Mount Ktaadin when all explanations and assumptions fell away for him and he was confronted with the wonderful, inexplicable thusness of things. David Hinton takes that moment as the starting point for his account of a rewilding of consciousness in the West: a dawning awareness of our essential oneness with the world around us. Because there was no Western vocabulary for this perception, it fell to poets to make the first efforts at articulation, and those efforts were largely driven by Taoist and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhist ideas imported from ancient China. Hinton chronicles this rewilding through the lineage of avant-garde poetry in twentieth-century America—from Ezra Pound and Robinson Jeffers to Gary Snyder, W. S. Merwin, and beyond—including generous selections of poems that together form a compelling anthology of ecopoetry. In his much-admired translations, Hinton has recreated ancient Chinese rivers-and-mountains poetry as modern American poetry; here, he reenvisions modern American poetry as an extension of that ancient Chinese tradition: an ecopoetry that weaves consciousness into the Cosmos in radical and fundamental ways.
David Hinton

David Hinton

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David Hinton has published numerous books of poetry and essays, and many translations of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy—all informed by an abiding interest in deep ecological thinking. This widely-acclaimed work has earned Hinton a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous fellowships from NEA and NEH, and both of the major awards given for poetry translation in the United States: the Landon Translation Award (Academy of American Poets) and the PEN American Translation Award. Most recently, Hinton received a lifetime achievement award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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from the citation for his American Academy of Arts and Letters Lifetime Achievement Award

“David Hinton is the best English-language translator of Chinese classic poetry we have and have had for decades. . . . The translations read in English as though they were written in it originally. A magician’s grace glows through all the poems, a grace and ease uncommonly found, uncommonly masterful.”

Eliot Weinberger

New York Review of Books

“[Hinton is a] rare example of a literary sinologist—that is, a classical scholar thoroughly conversant with, and connected to, contemporary poetry in English.”

W. S. Merwin

“Hinton's achievement is a gift to our language.”

New York Sun

“[Hinton] is a national treasure.”

Anne Waldman

“A unique and dazzling achievement.”

Rosemary Waldrop

from the citation for the Landon Prize, Academy of American Poets

“Hinton’s music is subtle, modulated. . . . He continues to enlarge our literary horizon.”

Bei Dao

author of At the Sky’s Edge and The Rose of Time

“Given the magnitude of his ability and his overall project, Hinton is creating nothing less than a new literary tradition in English.”

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