David Hinton Explained

David Hinton
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Cornell University
Awards:	Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (1997) PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (2007)

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

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 from the Ingram Merrill Foundation
• fellowship National Endowment for the Arts
• fellowship National Endowment for the Humanities.
• 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2007 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation^[3]
• 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Thorton Wilder Award for Translation

Works

Translations

• News: Poet's Choice 'Drinking Wine' by T'ao Ch'ien. David Hinton. April 19, 2009. The Washington Post .
• Web site: Overnight at Stone-gate Cliffs. Smith College.
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=R7m_LPWnSEkC --> Mountain home: the wilderness poetry of ancient China. New Directions Publishing. 2005. 978-0-8112-1624-1 .
• Book: The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun . New Directions. 2001. registration . David Hinton. . 978-0-8112-1489-6 .
• Book: Tao Te Ching. Counterpoint. 2000. 978-1-58243-047-8. Laozi, Lao zi, Lao-tzu .
• Book: The selected poems of Po Chü-I. New Directions Publishing. 1999. 978-0-8112-1412-4 .
• Book: Mencius . 1999. Basic Books. 978-1-58243-020-1 .
• Book: The Analects of Confucius . 1998. Counterpoint. 978-1-58243-038-6 .
• Book: Chuang Tzu: Inner Chapters . 1997. Publishers Group West. 978-1-887178-34-1 .
• Book: The Selected Poems of Lí Po . 1996. New Directions. registration . David Hinton. . 978-0-8112-1323-3 .
• Book: Bei Dao. Landscape Over Zero. 1996. New Directions. 978-0-8112-1334-9 .
• Book: The Late Poems of Meng Chiao . Princeton University Press. 1996. 978-0-691-01236-0 .
• Forms of Distance by Bei Dao (1994)
• Book: The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien. 1993. Copper Canyon Press. 978-1-55659-056-6.
• Book: The Selected Poems of Tu Fu . 1989. registration . David Hinton. . New Directions Publishing. 978-0-8112-1100-0 .
• The Selected Poems of Wang Wei. New Directions Publishing. 2006.
• Book: I Ching

  The Book of Change

  . 2015. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 978-0-374-22090-7.
• Book: No-Gate Gateway: The Original Wu-Men Kuan. 2018. Shambhala Publications. 978-1-611-80437-9.
• Book: Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry. 2019. Shambhala Publications. 978-1-611-80742-4.

Author

• Book: Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape. 2012. Shambhala Publications. 978-1-611-80016-6.
• Book: Existence: A Story. 2016. Shambhala Publications. 978-1-611-80338-9.
• Book: The Wilds of Poetry: Adventures in Mind and Landscape. 2017. Shambhala Publications. 978-1-611-80460-7.
• Book: Desert: Poems. 2018. Shambhala Publications. 978-1-611-80593-2.
• Book: China Root: Taoism, Ch'an, and Original Zen. 2020. Shambhala Publications. 978-1-611-80713-4.
• Book: The Way of Ch'an: Essential Texts of the Original Tradition. 2023. Shambhala Publications. 978-1611-80923-7.

Editor

• Book: Classical Chinese Poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. October 2008. 978-0-374-10536-5 .

External links

• "Author's website"

Notes and References

1. Web site: NEA Writers' Corner: David Hinton . www.arts.gov . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080917180744/http://www.arts.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=01_14 . 2008-09-17.
2. Web site: David Hinton Archives.
3. Web site: PEN American Center - 2007 Literary Awards: David Hinton . 2009-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090207183420/http://pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1579/prmID/1484 . 2009-02-07 . dead .