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The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain (Paperback)

by Hanshan (Author), John Eaton Calthorpe Blofeld (Introduction), Red Pine (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Copper Canyon Press; Rev Exp edition (Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1556591403
  • ISBN-13: 978-1556591402
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars For the Hermit in all of us, 15 Dec 2006
This book is the most comprehensive collection to date of the poems of Han-shan, or Hanshan, or Cold Mountain. There is a lengthy and well-researched introduction by Red Pine (Bill Porter) in which he examines the origins of these poems. Hanshan was a wandering poet-monk of 7th to 9th Century China who lived in the mountains and wrote poems on the walls of caves. It now seems unlikely that all the poems were written by one person, but the large time-span suggests several poets who were sympathetic to the original man.
Part of the attraction of these poems in the illusiveness of the author or authors. Who was this Zen Saint?
Red Pine's notes on each poem are excellent - they give historical and literary context, and allow even the novice to access these beautiful pieces of poetry.
If you live in the city and cannot escape, this books allows to slip away for a few minutes at least.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, very good service, 2 Oct 2009
Everything is in the title, really.

If you hesitate between Henricks' and Red Pine's versions, maybe what follows will help you :

Hanshan by Red Pine is really easy to read, it is quite a pleasure to have it in your hands, and there are pictures of Hanshan's cave, something you can't find anywhere else.

The translation by Henricks is far less seductive, but the introduction, contrary to Red Pine's, is a real academic work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect., 27 Oct 2008
By P. Attinello (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) - See all my reviews
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Briefly: remarkable - lucidly thought poems, in utterly transparent words by a wonderful translator. And a really beautiful edition, with meticulous but unobtrusive scholarly apparatus, produced with care and love.

The strangest thing is: Red Pine comments in his introduction that several publishers actually rejected these translations, before a small press agreed to print them.
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