{"product_id":"hawk-of-the-mind-collected-poems-9780231184694","title":"Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eYang Mu is a towering figure in modern Chinese poetry. His poetic voice is subtle and lyrical, and his work is rich with precise images and crystalline thoughts invoking temporality and remembrance. A bold innovator and superb craftsman, he elegantly combines cosmopolitan experimentation with poetic forms and an allusive reverence for classical Chinese poetry while remaining rooted in his native Taiwan and its colonial history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHawk of the Mind \u003c\/i\u003eis a comprehensive collection of Yang Mu's poetry that presents crucial works from the many stages of his long creative career, rendered into English by a team of distinguished translators. It conveys the complexity and beauty of Yang Mu's work in a stately and lucid English poetic register that displays his ability to range from meditative to playful and colloquial to archaic. The volume includes an editor's introduction and definitive commentary that offer insights into the poet's major themes and motifs, explaining how he draws on deep engagement with Chinese and Western literary traditions, history, and art as well as mythology, philosophy, and music and a profound love for the natural world to create a nuanced and multifaceted artistic universe. It also contains translations of prefaces and afterwords written by Yang Mu for collections of his poetry.\u003ci\u003e Hawk of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the breadth and depth of Yang Mu's oeuvre, illustrating the distinctive style and affective power of a great poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eYang Mu (the pen name of Wang Ching-hsien) was born and raised in Taiwan. He is the author of more than two dozen poetry and prose collections, including \u003ci\u003ePropositions of Temporality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInterventions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLong and Short Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e, and the memoir \u003ci\u003eMemories of Mount Qilai: The Education of a Young Poet\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia, 2015). Among the many literary prizes he has received are the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and the Cikada Prize (Sweden). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichelle Yeh is Distinguished Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis. She is coeditor and cotranslator of \u003ci\u003eNo Trace of the Gardener: Poems of Yang Mu\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and \u003ci\u003eThe Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan \u003c\/i\u003e(Columbia, 2014), among others.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872492359954,"sku":"9780231184694","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_97d60b18-0831-40f5-952e-6788ab7ddf1e.jpg?v=1737899760","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hawk-of-the-mind-collected-poems-9780231184694","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}