David Hinton

David Hinton is an American poet, and translator.

Life

He studied Chinese at Cornell University, and in Taiwan.^[1] He lives in East Calais, Vermont.^[2]

Awards

• 1997 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
• fellowship from the Witter Bynner Foundation
• fellowship the Ingram Merrill Foundation
• fellowship National Endowment for the Arts
• fellowship National Endowment for the Humanities.
• 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2007 PEN Award for translation^[3]

Works

Translations

• David Hinton (April 19, 2009). "Poet's Choice 'Drinking Wine' by T'ao Ch'ien". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041701369.html. 
• "Overnight at Stone-gate Cliffs". Smith College. http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/poets/overnight.html. 

• Mountain home: the wilderness poetry of ancient China. New Directions Publishing. 2005. ISBN 9780811216241. http://books.google.com/?id=R7m_LPWnSEkC&dq=David+Hinton&printsec=frontcover. 
• The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun. New Directions. 2001. ISBN 9780811214896. http://books.google.com/?id=yd8NurNS-zkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=David+Hinton. 
• Laozi, Lao zi, Lao-tzu (2000). Tao Te Ching. Counterpoint. ISBN 9781582430478. 
• The selected poems of Po Chü-I. New Directions Publishing. 1999. ISBN 9780811214124. http://books.google.com/?id=cMY-UIJyCvgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=David+Hinton. 
• Mencius. Basic Books. 1999. ISBN 9781582430201. http://books.google.com/?id=yPbWAiQKQAQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=David+Hinton. 
• The Analects of Confucius. Counterpoint. 1998. ISBN 9781582430386. 
• Chuang Tzu: Inner Chapters. Publishers Group West. 1997. ISBN 9781887178341. 
• The Selected Poems of Lí Po. New Directions. 1996. ISBN 9780811213233. http://books.google.com/?id=HSVgjUueodcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=David+Hinton. 
• Bei Dao (1996). Landscape Over Zero. New Directions. ISBN 9780811213349. 
• The Late Poems of Meng Chiao. Princeton University Press. 1996. ISBN 9780691012360. http://books.google.com/?id=4jb31MbYaGwC&dq=David+Hinton&printsec=frontcover. 
• Forms of Distance by Bei Dao (1994)
• The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien. Copper Canyon Press. 1993. ISBN 9781556590566. 
• The Selected Poems of Tu Fu. New Directions Publishing. 1989. ISBN 9780811211000. http://books.google.com/?id=AjrCB3w0YCwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=David+Hinton. 

Editor

• Classical Chinese Poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. October 2008. ISBN 9780374105365. 

Reviews

We are all of us indebted to David Hinton for his eloquent and, more importantly, philosophical translations of Chinese poetry. I point this out because while there have been many translations of Chinese poetry over the last century, few have acknowledged and brought to life the philosophical context of the poetry. David Hinton and Bill Porter are important in this respect. This is not to say, however, that there is not room for quibbling....^[4]

With David Hinton as our guide, Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology comes across as something akin to a magical artifact, full of potential energies and untapped motes of poetic inspiration. Anyone, especially poets looking outside the western canon for transformative verse and fresh inspiration, should include this book in their library.^[5]

References

1. ^ http://www.arts.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=01_14
2. ^ http://www.archipelagobooks.org/trans.php?id=17
3. ^ http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1579/prmID/1484
4. ^ Tom Pynn. "The Selected Poems of Wang Wei". Vox. http://www.voxjournal.com/davidhintonwangwei.htm. 
5. ^ Ben Mirov (October, 2008). "ANTHOLOGY: The Task of the Translator-Poet". The Brooklyn Rail. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/10/books/anthology-the-task-of-the-translator-poet. 

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Author's blog at FSG poets"

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