From the Mountain, From the Valley

From the Mountain, From the Valley
Author: James Still
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2014-04-23
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 081314616X

“One of our greatest American poets. In particular he has captured the spirit and language of the Appalachian South . . . like no other.” —Lee Smith, New York Times-bestselling author James Still first achieved national recognition in the 1930s as a poet. Although he is better known today as a writer of fiction, it is his poetry that many of his essential images, such as the “mighty river of earth,” first found expression. Yet much of his poetry remains out of print or difficult to find. From the Mountain, From the Valley collects all of Still’s poems, including several never before published, and corrects editorial mistakes that crept into previous collections. The poems are presented in chronological order, allowing the reader to trace the evolution of Still’s voice. Throughout, his language is fresh and vigorous and his insight profound. His respect for people and place never sounds sentimental or dated. Ted Olson’s introduction recounts Still’s early literary career and explores the poetic origins of his acclaimed lyrical prose. Still himself has contributed the illuminating autobiographical essay “A Man Singing to Himself,” which will appeal to every lover of his work. “Still’s is the distinctive voice of Appalachia, and we are most fortunate to have his best work in this single beautiful volume.” —Louisville Courier-Journal “Still works in traditional lyric forms and with traditional lyric tools. Rarely does a poem need a second page. The best poems are tight and demonstrate a quiet mastery, even a humble virtuosity.” —Journal of Appalachian Studies

Laughing Lost in the Mountains

Laughing Lost in the Mountains
Author: 維·王
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780874515640

Fine contemporary translations of one of the great poets of the T'ang dynasty.

Burying the Mountain

Burying the Mountain
Author: Shangyang Fang
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1619322455

In Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult beauty. Absence is translated into fire ants and snow, a boy’s desire is transfigured into the indifference of mountains and rivers, and loneliness finds its place in the wounded openness of language. From the surface of a Song Dynasty ink-wash painting to a makeshift bedroom in Chengdu, these poems thread intimacy, eros, and grief. Evoking the music of ancient Chinese poetry, Fang alloys political erasure, exile, remembrance, and death into a single brushstroke on the silk scroll, where names are forgotten as paper boats on water.

Door in the Mountain

Door in the Mountain
Author: Jean Valentine
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2004-11-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0819567124

The collected works of one of America’s most innovative poets.

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan
Author: Meng Hao-Jan
Publisher: Archipelago
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1935744097

The first full flowering of Chinese poetry occurred in the illustrious T’ang Dynasty, and at the beginning of this renaissance stands Meng Hao-jan (689-740 c.e.), esteemed elder to a long line of China’s greatest poets. Deeply influenced by Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, Meng was the first to make poetry from the Ch’an insight that deep understanding lies beyond words. The result was a strikingly distilled language that opened new inner depths, non-verbal insights, and outright enigma. This made Meng Hao-jan China’s first master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify ancient Chinese poetry. And as a lifelong intimacy with mountains dominates Meng’s work, such innovative poetics made him a preeminent figure in the wilderness (literally rivers-and-mountains) tradition, and that tradition is the very heart of Chinese poetry. This is the first English translation devoted to the work of Meng Hao-jan. Meng’s poetic descendents revered the wisdom he cultivated as a mountain recluse, and now we too can witness the sagacity they considered almost indistinguishable from that of rivers and mountains themselves.

The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse

The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
Author: Stonehouse
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014-06-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1619321181

"The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse."—Kyoto Journal The Zen master and mountain hermit Stonehouse—considered one of the greatest Chinese Buddhist poets—used poetry as his medium of instruction. Near the end of his life, monks asked him to record what he found of interest on his mountain; Stonehouse delivered to them hundreds of poems and an admonition: "Do not to try singing these poems. Only if you sit on them will they do you any good." Newly revised, with the Chinese originals and Red Pine's abundant commentary and notes, The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse is an essential volume for Zen students, readers of Asian literature, and all who love the outdoors. After eating I dust off a boulder and sleep and after sleeping I go for a walk on a cloudy late summer day an oriole sings from a sapling briefly enjoying the season joyfully singing out its heart true happiness is right here why chase an empty name Stonehouse was born in 1272 in Changshu, China, and took his name from a cave at the edge of town. He became a highly respected dharma master in the Zen Buddhist tradition. Red Pine is one of the world's leading translators of Chinese poetry. "Every time I translate a book of poems," he writes, "I learn a new way of dancing. And the music has to be Chinese." He lives near Seattle, Washington.

Mountain

Mountain
Author: Scott Mitchell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2020-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780648954705

This book is a collection of 108 English language Haiku and Senryu poems written over a period of twenty years. It detailsthose precious moments in life in whose ordinariness might otherwise go by unacknowledged save for the gift of Haiku.It is more than a simple poem, it is an artform that suspends eternity in simple things. As an avid practitioner of this craft I aspire to this notion. To convey my present experience and capture the ever illusive 'Haiku moment'.

The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yün

The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yün
Author: Lingyun Xie
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2001
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811214896

In our own time the "wilderness" has emerged as a source of spiritual renewal, both as idea and in actual practice. But Hsieh Ling-yün (385-433 C. E.) was there before us.