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Cold Mountain Poems by Hanshan; Gary Snyder; Michael McPherson is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Cold Mountain Poems about?
In 1953, Gary Snyder returned to the Bay Area and, at age 23, enrolled in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, to study Asian languages and culture. He intensified his study of Chinese and Japanese, and taking up the challenge of one of his professors, Chen Shih-hsiang, he began to work on translating a largely unknown poet by the name of Han Shan, a writer with whom the professor thought Snyder might feel a special affinity. The results were magical. As Patrick Murphy noted, "These poems are something more than translations precisely because Snyder renders them as a melding of Han Shan's Chinese Ch'an Buddhist mountain spirit trickster mentality and Snyder's own mountain wilderness meditation and labor activities." The suite of 24 poems was published in the 1958 issue of The Evergreen Review , and the career of one of America's greatest poets was launched. In 1972, Press-22 issued a beautiful edition of these poems written out by hand in italic by Michael McPherson. We are doing a new augments edition based on the old, with a new design, a preface by Lu Ch'iu-yin, and an afterword by Mr. Snyder where he discusses how he came to this work and what it meant to
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Hanshan; Gary Snyder; Michael McPherson
- Publisher
- Counterpoint Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781619021686
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Nature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.54 / 5 (54 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13