David Hinton is an American poet and translator who specializes in Chinese literature and poetry.

David Hinton
Occupation
  • Poet
  • translator
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCornell University
Notable awardsHarold Morton Landon Translation Award (1997)
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (2007)
Website
www.davidhinton.net

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

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Translations

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  • David Hinton (April 19, 2009). "Poet's Choice 'Drinking Wine' by T'ao Ch'ien". The Washington Post.
  • "Overnight at Stone-gate Cliffs". Smith College.
  • Mountain home: the wilderness poetry of ancient China. New Directions Publishing. 2005. ISBN 978-0-8112-1624-1.
  • The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun. New Directions. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8112-1489-6. David Hinton.
  • Laozi, Lao zi, Lao-tzu (2000). Tao Te Ching. Counterpoint. ISBN 978-1-58243-047-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • The selected poems of Po Chü-I. New Directions Publishing. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8112-1412-4.
  • Mencius. Basic Books. 1999. ISBN 978-1-58243-020-1.
  • The Analects of Confucius. Counterpoint. 1998. ISBN 978-1-58243-038-6.
  • Chuang Tzu: Inner Chapters. Publishers Group West. 1997. ISBN 978-1-887178-34-1.
  • The Selected Poems of Lí Po. New Directions. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8112-1323-3. David Hinton.
  • Bei Dao (1996). Landscape Over Zero. New Directions. ISBN 978-0-8112-1334-9.
  • The Late Poems of Meng Chiao. Princeton University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-691-01236-0.
  • Forms of Distance by Bei Dao (1994)
  • The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien. Copper Canyon Press. 1993. ISBN 978-1-55659-056-6.
  • The Selected Poems of Tu Fu. New Directions Publishing. 1989. ISBN 978-0-8112-1100-0. David Hinton.
  • The Selected Poems of Wang Wei. New Directions Publishing. 2006.
  • I Ching: The Book of Change. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 2015. ISBN 978-0-374-22090-7.
  • No-Gate Gateway: The Original Wu-Men Kuan. Shambhala Publications. 2018. ISBN 978-1-611-80437-9.
  • Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry. Shambhala Publications. 2019. ISBN 978-1-611-80742-4.

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References

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  1. ^ "NEA Writers' Corner: David Hinton". www.arts.gov. Archived from the original on 2008-09-17.
  2. ^ "David Hinton Archives".
  3. ^ "PEN American Center - 2007 Literary Awards: David Hinton". Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
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