Tao Yuanming Choosing to Be Simple (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Choosing to Be Simple : Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming
- Publication Name
- Choosing to Be Simple
- Title
- Choosing to Be Simple
- Subtitle
- Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming
- Translator
- Red Pine
- Contributor
- Red Pine (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781556596728
- ISBN
- 9781556596728
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Genre
- Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Release Year
- 2023
- Release Date
- 23/11/2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 7in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Topic
- Ancient & Classical, Linguistics / General
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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From "Returning Home" What I hope for isn't wealth or fame nor the realm of the gods but to go somewhere on a sunny day alone or put aside my cane and plow or climb the east hills and drone or write a poem by a stream ride my transformation to my final home enjoy the will of Heaven free of doubts. The latest work in Red Pine's rich career of translation. Choosing to Be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming, is a definitive portrait of China's most famous and admired poet during the formative Six Dynasties period (220-589 CE). Thoroughly researched and beautifully translated, this bilingual collection of over 160 verses chronicles Tao Yuanming's path from civil servant to reclusive farmer. Poems reverberate with clarity, sincerity, and humor as Tao Yuanming explores the tension between scarcity and indulgence, duty and escape. Guided by Tao Yuanming's own wonderment, we, too, find ourselves asking, "Why did I ever question my heart?" We are encouraged to find joy in simplicity: the tending of a garden, the sharing of wine with a neighbor.
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Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN-10
1556596723
ISBN-13
9781556596728
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2330265271
Product Key Features
Book Title
Choosing to Be Simple : Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Ancient & Classical, Linguistics / General
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pl2665.T3a2 2023
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"Bill Porter has been one of the most prolific translators of Chinese texts, while also developing into a travel writer with a cult following." --New York Times "In the travel writing that has made him so popular in China, Porter's tone is not reverential but explanatory, and filled with luminous asides." -- The New York Review of Books "Red Pine's out-of-the-mainstream work is canny and clearheaded, and it has immeasurably enhanced Zen/Daoist literature and practice." -- Kyoto Journal "With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of the Taoteching works as both a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation."-- Publishers Weekly "Red Pine introduces Western readers to both the text itself and the traditions it has inherited." -- Virginia Quarterly Review "Red Pine... has given us the first full collection of Han Shan's songs in an idiom that is clear, graceful, and neutral enough to last... His translations are accurate and mirror the music of the originals..." -- Bloomsbury Review "In Red Pine's hands, these poems are revitalized." -- Ellipsis, Praise for Choosing to Be Simple "Navigating the uncertainty of a divided China wracked by warfare and corruption, Tao Yuanming's poetry--expertly translated by Red Pine--chooses the path walked by China's ancient sages, finding joy in living a simple life. The latest work in Red Pine's rich career of translation, Choosing to be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming , is a definitive portrait of the early Chinese politician and poet....We are encouraged to find joy in simplicity--the tending of a garden, the sharing of wine with a stranger."-- New York Journal of Books "Reading a great ancient poet, like the reclusive Tao Yuanming (365-427), is one of the most congenial ways to assess what feels timeless amidst the tumult of our own times: here, the desire for a meaningful life, the disappointment of worldly ambition, the joy of solitude and friendship, even the struggle to overcome addiction. . . . Tao's impeccable translator Red Pine follows the traditional Chinese practice of offering scholarly commentary for each poem, but what persists in the transmutation to present-day English is less the discord of bygone dynasties than the poet's quest for spiritual harmony."-- David Woo, Lit Hub Praise for Red Pine/Bill Porter "Bill Porter has been one of the most prolific translators of Chinese texts, while also developing into a travel writer with a cult following." --New York Times "In the travel writing that has made him so popular in China, Porter's tone is not reverential but explanatory, and filled with luminous asides." -- The New York Review of Books "Red Pine's out-of-the-mainstream work is canny and clearheaded, and it has immeasurably enhanced Zen/Daoist literature and practice." -- Kyoto Journal "With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of the Taoteching works as both a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation."-- Publishers Weekly "Red Pine introduces Western readers to both the text itself and the traditions it has inherited." -- Virginia Quarterly Review "Red Pine... has given us the first full collection of Han Shan's songs in an idiom that is clear, graceful, and neutral enough to last... His translations are accurate and mirror the music of the originals..." -- Bloomsbury Review "In Red Pine's hands, these poems are revitalized." -- Ellipsis
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2023-014735
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