Hunger Mountain A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape

Name: Hunger Mountain A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape
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ISBN: 9781611800166

ISBN-10: 1611800161

ISBN-13: 9781611800166

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Hinton

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Learning to see with the eyes of the ancient Chinese sages can change your view of the universe, as David Hinton demonstrates. He takes us on a series of walks up Hunger Mountain, a wilderness area near his home in Vermont. What he sees and describes about these outings is informed by the cosmos-view he's imbibed from his many years of translating Chinese poetry: a way of looking at nature, and our place in it, and a particular way of regarding the relationship between ourselves and the universe. It's a view that informs all the great Chinese poetry and art. It's found in Taoism and Chinese expressions of Buddhism, but it predates them by millennia, going back probably to the Paleolithic…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.80" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

David Hinton's many translations of classical Chinese poetry and philosophy have earned wide acclaim for creating compelling contemporary texts that convey the actual texture and density of the originals. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as numerous fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1997, he received the Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. He lives in East Calais, Vermont.