{"product_id":"the-selected-poems-of-yang-david-hinton-9781645475002","title":"The Selected Poems of Yang Wan-Li","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn expansive selection of poems from Yang Wan-li, the last giant of classical Chinese poetry's golden age, masterfully translated by David Hinton.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConsidered one of the four great poets of the Sung Dynasty, Yang Wan-li (1127-1206 c.e.) is in many ways the quintessential Chinese landscape poet. As a traveling government official, Yang undertook many long and arduous journeys that exposed him to both breathtaking landscapes and hardships of hunger, exhaustion, bitter weather, and dangerous rapids in stark gorges. It is in this crucible of tranquil beauty and existential danger that he forged a poetry of self-realization deeply informed by Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist insight. In finding a language to capture the pure perception at the heart of human experience, Yang's poems embody the Ch'an experience of the meditative mind emptied of all conceptual structures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA typical Yang Wan-li poem attends to immediate experience with profound clarity, and this attention usually leads to a moment of sudden awakening: a startling image or turn of thought, a surprising imaginative gesture, a twist of humor. With nothing more than a crystalline attention to the present moment, Yang's poems find enlightenment everywhere: in a fly, for instance, sunning on a windowsill. In these original translations of over two hundred of his most vital works, David Hinton gives a remarkably modern voice to Yang's journeys through the perennial mysteries of consciousness, revealing for a new generation why his poetry has captivated readers for nearly a millennium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Hinton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 164547500X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781645475002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shambhala\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"David Hinton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443023229183,"sku":"9781645475002","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b873bef8-d77d-409f-99f3-5d11e26eeac7.jpg?v=1777201332","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-selected-poems-of-yang-david-hinton-9781645475002","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}