The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-Yun (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-Yun Sunday, August 9 2009.

• 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. These poems were hugely popular in Hsieh's own time and established him as one of the most innovative and influential poets in the history of Chinese poetry as well as a founder of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. Once again David Hinton , a recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and The National Endowment for the Humanities and the winner of a Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from The Academy of American Poets, has produced a fluid and supple translation that does full justice to the rivers-and-mountains of Hsieh Ling-yün's inspiration.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-Yun Thursday, July 30 2009.

• Added a contributor: Lingyun Xie: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-Yun Friday, July 17 2009.

• Quiet mystery of lone dragons alluring, calls of migrant geese echoing distances, I meet sky, unable to soar among clouds, face a river, all those depths beyond me.