The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-Yun
New York, NY: New Directions Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. "During the last decade of his life, living as a recluse high in the mountains of southeast China, Hsieh Ling-yun (385-433 C.E.) initiated a tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" (shan-shui) poetry that stretches across millennia in China and beyond, a tradition that represents the earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history. Hsieh's work, all but unknown in the..... More
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