Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape - Softcover

David Hinton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611800161 ISBN 13: 9781611800166

Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc, 2013

Synopsis

Come along with David Hinton on a series of walks through the wild beauty of Hunger Mountain, near his home in Vermont—excursions informed by the worldview he’s imbibed from his many years translating the classics of Chinese poetry and philosophy. His broad-ranging discussion offers insight on everything from the mountain landscape to the origins of consciousness and the Cosmos, from geology to Chinese landscape painting, from parenting to pictographic oracle-bone script, to a family chutney recipe. It’s a spiritual ecology that is profoundly ancient and at the same time resoundingly contemporary. Your view of the landscape—and of your place in it—may never be the same.

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About the Author

David Hinton's many translations of classical Chinese poetry have earned wide acclaim for creating compelling contemporary poems that convey the texture and density of the originals. He is also the first translator in over a century to translate the five seminal masterworks of Chinese philosophy: <i>I Ching</i>, <i> T<i>ao Te Ching</i></i>, <i>Chuang Tzu</i>, <i>Analects</i>, and <i>Mencius</i>. Hinton has received many national awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, both major awards for poetry translation, and most recently, a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611800161
• ISBN 13: 9781611800166
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144