The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan
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The first full flowering of Chinese poetry occurred in the illustrious Tâ€™ang Dynasty, and at the beginning of this renaissance stands Meng Hao-jan (689-740 c.e.), esteemed elder to a long line of Chinaâ€™s greatest poets. Deeply influenced by Châ€™an (Zen) Buddhism, Meng was the first to make poetry from the Châ€™an insight that deep understanding lies beyond words. The result was a strikingly distilled language that opened new inner depths, non-verbal insights, and outright enigma. This made Meng Hao-jan Chinaâ€™s first master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify ancient Chinese poetry. And as a lifelong intimacy with mountains dominates Mengâ€™s work, such innovative poetics made him a preeminent figure in the wilderness (literally rivers-and-mountains) tradition, and that tradition is the very heart of Chinese poetry.
This is the first English translation devoted to the work of Meng Hao-jan. Mengâ€™s poetic descendents revered the wisdom he cultivated as a mountain recluse, and now we too can witness the sagacity they considered almost indistinguishable from that of rivers and mountains themselves.
Country USA
Brand Archipelago Books
Manufacturer Archipelago
Binding Paperback
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2004-01-05
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780972869232

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