{"product_id":"mountain-home-the-wilderness-poetry-of-ancient-china-9780811216241","title":"Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, \u003ci\u003eMountain Home\u003c\/i\u003e is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary.\u003c\/b\u003e China's tradition of \"rivers-and-mountains\" poetry stretches across millennia. This is a plain-spoken poetry of immediate day-to-day experience, and yet seems most akin to China's grand landscape paintings. Although its wisdom is ancient, rooted in Taoist and Zen thought, the work feels utterly contemporary, especially as rendered here in Hinton's rich and accessible translations. \u003ci\u003eMountain Home\u003c\/i\u003e collects poems from 5th- through 13th-century China and includes the poets Li Po, Po Chu-i and Tu Fu. The \"rivers-and-mountains\" tradition covers a remarkable range of topics: comic domestic scenes, social protest, travel, sage recluses, and mountain landscapes shaped into forms of enlightenment. And within this range, the poems articulate the experience of living as an organic part of the natural world and its processes. In an age of global ecological disruption and mass extinction, this tradition grows more urgently important every day. Mountain Home offers poems that will charm and inform not just readers of poetry, but also the large community of readers who are interested in environmental awareness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHinton, David:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDAVID HINTON\u003c\/strong\u003e's original \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems of Tu Fu\u003c\/em\u003e was the first full-length verse translation of Tu Fu published in America. The author also of singular books of essays and poetry, Hinton has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous N.E.A. and N.E.H fellowships, both major awards given for poetry translation in the United States, and a lifetime achievement award by The American Academy of Arts and Letters.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHinton, David:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDAVID HINTON\u003c\/strong\u003e's original \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems of Tu Fu\u003c\/em\u003e was the first full-length verse translation of Tu Fu published in America. The author also of singular books of essays and poetry, Hinton has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous N.E.A. and N.E.H fellowships, both major awards given for poetry translation in the United States, and a lifetime achievement award by The American Academy of Arts and Letters.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726493290770,"sku":"9780811216241","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_96f9cf3a-f75f-4165-b4d6-4d16444aefd1.jpg?v=1734871879","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mountain-home-the-wilderness-poetry-of-ancient-china-9780811216241","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}