The Selected Poems of Yang Wan-li

Praise for David Hinton’s Chinese poetry translations

“He continues to enlarge our literary horizon.”
―Rosemary Waldrop, citation for the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

“Given the magnitude of his ability and his overall project, Hinton is creating nothing less than a new literary tradition in English, an event of truly major importance not only to English literature but also to the literature of my own language. I cannot recommend the value of his work too highly.”
―Bei Dao

“Hinton’s achievement is a gift to our language.”
—W. S. Merwin

“David Hinton is the best English-language translator of classic Chinese poetry we have, and have had for decades.”
—The American Academy of Arts and Letters

“He has been building, translation by translation, an English language for the Chinese conceptual world.”
—The New York Review of Books

DAVID HINTON

David Hinton is a widely acclaimed author of numerous books of poetry and essays. He is also a translator of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy, with his work deeply informed by an abiding interest in deep ecological thinking.

Hinton’s distinguished career has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). He has also received both of the major awards for poetry translation in the United States: the Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets and the PEN American Translation Award. Most recently, Hinton was honored with a lifetime achievement award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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