{"id":3833,"date":"2017-08-09T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2017-08-08T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T02:27:08","slug":"david-hintons-wilds-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3833","title":{"rendered":"David Hinton’s Wilds of Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>Shambhala <\/a>announces The Wilds of Poetry<\/em>, a study of American poetry by Chinese poetry translator David Hinton.<\/p>\n

Hinton takes Henry David Thoreau’s description of “a moment on Mount Ktaadin when all explanations and assumptions fell away for him and he was confronted with the wonderful, inexplicable thusness of things” as “the starting point for his account of a rewilding of consciousness in the West: a dawning awareness of our essential oneness with the world around us.”<\/p>\n

The press release explains,<\/p>\n

Because there was no Western vocabulary for this perception, it fell to poets to make the first efforts at articulation, and those efforts were largely driven by Taoist and Ch\u2019an (Zen) Buddhist ideas imported from ancient China. Hinton chronicles this rewilding through the lineage of avant-garde poetry in twentieth-century America\u2014from Ezra Pound and Robinson Jeffers to Gary Snyder, W. S. Merwin, and beyond\u2014including generous selections of poems that together form a compelling anthology of ecopoetry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Having, as a translator, “recreated ancient Chinese rivers-and-mountains poetry as modern American poetry,” Hinton in The Wilds of Poetry<\/em> “reenvisions modern American poetry as an extension of that ancient Chinese tradition: an ecopoetry that weaves consciousness into the Cosmos in radical and fundamental ways.”<\/p>\n

Read a sample here<\/a>. Click on the image above for ordering information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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