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The Essential Chuang Tzu

Jerome P Seaton; Chuang-Tzu; Sam Hamill

The ancient Chinese text known as CHUANG TZU has been translated into English many times, but never with the freshness, accessibility, and accuracy of this remarkable rendering--the result of a unique collaboration between one of America's premier poet-translators and a leading Chinese scholar. At turns playful and acerbic, the book presents a philosophy of life that is politically radical and deeply spiritual.

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Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way

Jerome P Seaton; Lao-Tzu; Ursula K. Le Guin; Ursula Le Guin

Now in paperback--a richly poetic version of the Taoist classic by one of America's leading literary figures.

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Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way

Jerome P Seaton; Ursula K. Le Guin; Lao-Tzu

This is a completely fresh and poetic version of the twenty-five-hundred-year-old Chinese spiritual classic, by one of America's most thought-provoking writers. Moved by a lifelong love for the Tao Te Ching, the novelist and poet Ursula K. Le Guin has been working on this version of the text since the 1950s. Scholar J. P. Seaton has added expert linguistic guidance to her work, bringing to it an equally passionate commitment to scholarly accuracy. Together they have created a translation that is unlike any seen before. Le Guin's version captures all the brilliance of Lao Tzu's poetry while conveying with immediacy and clarity the astonishing depth of his spiritual insights. It also corrects many of the distorted views of Lao Tzu's philosophy, freeing it from gender-bias and revealing its universal relevance. This new version is sure to be welcomed by the many readers of the Tao Te Ching, as well as those coming to the text for the first time.

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I Don't Bow to Buddhas: Selected Poems of Yuan Mei

Jerome P Seaton; Mei Yuan

Yuan Mei was not only the most popular poet of the 18th century Ch'ing Dynasty, but the most popular poet in the 2500-year history of classical Chinese poetry. A male feminist who dared to promote poetry by women at a time when it was suppressed, and a poet who wrote on forbidden subjects, he retired from public office in his mid-thirties and enjoyed a successful career writing for the newly-formed urban class. Deeply influenced by Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist and Taoist philosophy, while he does not "bow to Buddhas," he does "honor a monk" because "He's here now, apparently." His self-effacing good humor and urbane wit combine with his Ch'an perspective to make him unique in the annals of Chinese poetry.

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A Drifting Boat: An Anthology of Chinese Zen Poetry

Jerome P Seaton

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Love and Time: Poems of Ou-Yang Hsiu

Jerome P Seaton; Hsiu Ou-Yang; Ou-Yang Hsiu

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Bright Moon, Perching Bird: Poems

Jerome P Seaton; Po Li; Fu Du; James Cryer

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Chinese Poetic Writing

Jerome P Seaton; Francois Cheng

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