The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (Poetica 39) translated by David Hinton

Wang Wei

ISBN 10: 0856464155 / ISBN 13: 9780856464157

Published by Anvil Press Poetry, 2009

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Published by Anvil Press in 2009, here is the first UK softback printing of The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (Poetica 39) translated by David Hinton. Green glossy pictorial card covers, 116 pages the book is in near fine condition with a modicum of shelf wear to the card covers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (Poetica 39) translated by David Hinton
• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856464155
• ISBN 13: 9780856464157
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Wang Wei (701-761 AD) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China's 3,000-year poetic history. He was the consummate master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify classical Chinese poetry, with poems of resounding tranquillity whose style and substance can be traced to his practice of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. But in spite of this philosophical depth, Wang is not a difficult poet. He may in fact be the most immediately appealing of China's great poets, and in Hinton's masterful translations he sounds utterly contemporary.