Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry is a revised and expanded edition containing 96 original translations of poems by the T'ang Zen poet, Han-Shan. The introduction includes a unique auto-biography of the poet, written with information gleaned exclusively from the poems. The poems were found written on the rocks in a remote region in the Tien Tai Mountains in southern China, and belong in both the Zen and Taoist traditions. They tell the story of a gentle recluse and of his long life on Cold Mountain as a "guest" of nature, living in a cave and foraging for food. Though simple and childlike, the poems are majestic and have the power to lift the reader to share a moment in the poet's heaven.

Altogether, there are 320 Cold Mountain poems. Within the total there are three distinct groups: the biographical poems, about the poet's life before he arrived at Cold Mountain; religious and political poems, generally critical of conventional wisdom and those who embrace it; and the transcendental poems, about the poet's sojourn at Cold Mountain.  This collection contains all of the transcendental poems; and none of the biographical, religious or political poems.

Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry is a collection of the very best translations you will find in English.  Each poem has been carefully translated and polished, they are rich with metaphor, and the poetry is close to the heart of Cold Mountain.

Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry is a revised and expanded edition containing 96 original translations of poems by the T'ang Zen poet, Han-Shan. The introduction includes a unique auto-biography of the poet, written with information gleaned exclusively from the poems. The poems were found written on the rocks in a remote region in the Tien Tai Mountains in southern China, and belong in both the Zen and Taoist traditions. They tell the story of a gentle recluse and of his long life on Cold Mountain as a "guest" of nature, living in a cave and foraging for food. Though simple and childlike, the poems are majestic and have the power to lift the reader to share a moment in the poet's heaven.

Altogether, there are 320 Cold Mountain poems. Within the total there are three distinct groups: the biographical poems, about the poet's life before he arrived at Cold Mountain; religious and political poems, generally critical of conventional wisdom and those who embrace it; and the transcendental poems, about the poet's sojourn at Cold Mountain.  This collection contains all of the transcendental poems; and none of the biographical, religious or political poems.

Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry is a collection of the very best translations you will find in English.  Each poem has been carefully translated and polished, they are rich with metaphor, and the poetry is close to the heart of Cold Mountain.

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