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Title: The Selected Poems of Po Chu-I by Chu-I Pai, David Hinton, Po Chu-I ISBN: 0-8112-1412-5 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Finest Translation of Chinese Poems available Today
Comment: This is the very finest translation of Chinese poems I have seen. I have over one hundred books of translations of Chinese poets.
Hinton is able to catch the feel of a Zen religous life by a famous civil servant of the late Tang Dynasty. He captures the bitter sweet character of the life many Chinese poets chose where they were two totally different people -- mystics and civil servants. We can find few people in world history on which to model our lifes with more real depth than Po Chi I, Su Tung Po, and Wang Wei.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mr. Hinton's amazing, sensitive work
Comment: A Servant Girl Is Missing
From the low walls of our small courtyard to the notice-board outside our district gate,
I've searched and searched, ashamed our love proved meager, wishing I could do it all over.
But a caged bird can't bear a master for long, and the branch means nothing to a blossom
freed on the wind. Where can she be tonight? Only the moon's understanding light knows.
This was written in the 9th century C.E. by the famous Chinese Tang dynasty poet Po Chu-I. Po's beautiful lines are Taoist and Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist in influence, but something about them sings transcendent and is not easily categorized. Consider how much is contained in this poem: worry, a confession of wrongdoing, an admission of love, something about nature and the need for human freedom, and a tiny fragment of intuitive (mystic) insight when he adds: "Only the moon's understanding light knows." Whew! How did he do it, all carefully wrapped in deceptively simple rhyming couplets in the Chinese? I'm awed by this work, as I am by Po's modern English translator, David Hinton. This book is recently available in trade paperback by New Directions Publishing. Any of these Chinese poets (Hinton translates Meng Chiao and my favorite, T'ao Ch'ien, too, as well as others) will radically change your view of life, for theirs was a powerful and elegant civilization when Rome was still fighting off its hordes. These are beautiful, poignant, often sad, but very wise reflections about existence, metaphysics, and how to live a rich life.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: I have to commend David Hinton's ability to change translation styles to match the style of the poets he translates. Po Chu-i's poetry is very simple and straightforward, and in response, Hinton sticks very close to the original Chinese in his translation. This works very well most of the time, but at times it is taken too far, and the gammar can seem awkward taken in English. Nevertheless, the essentially beauty of the poetry shines through, and the selection is well chosen. I would have preferred that the original Chinese be included, but this omission is unlikely to bother most readers. All in all, the collection is a credit both to poet and translator. I highly recommend it.
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Title: The Selected Poems of T'Ao Ch'Ien by T'Ao Ch'Ien, David Hinton, Tao Chien, Ch'ien T'Ao, Qian Tao ISBN: 1556590563 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-Yun by Lingyun Xie, David Hinton, Hsieh Ling-Yun ISBN: 0811214893 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Late Poems of Meng Chiao by Meng Chiao, David Hinton ISBN: 0691012369 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 23 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Selected Poems of Li Po by Bo Li, David Hinton, Po Li, Li Po ISBN: 0811213234 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: When I Find You Again, It Will Be in Mountains by Dao Jia, Mike O'Connor, Tao Chia, Chia Tao ISBN: 0861711726 Publisher: Wisdom Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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