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# The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain (Mandarin Chinese and English Edition)

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    The wilderness way
  

*by B***3 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 7, 2010*

Admired by the likes of Kerouac and Snyder, the wisdom-filled poems of Chinese hermit, Han Shan, have a timeless magic to them.  Whether extolling the virtues of the solitary life or capturing glimpses of wilderness beauty, Han Shan's poetry sings with simplicity and elegance.Revered as a sage in his native China, Han Shan, who wrote under the Zen nom de plume, 'Cold Mountain,' followed an individualist credo with both Taoist and Buddhist influences.  He chose to live in severe isolation from his fellows in close intimacy with the natural world.  The finest poems in this collection constantly return to this theme of willful exile.  Since I came to Cold Mountain  How many thousand years have passed  Accepting my fate, I fled to the woods  To dwell and gaze in freedom  My quilt is the dark blue sky  A boulder makes a fine pillow  Heaven and Earth can crumble and changeWhile many of these poems celebrate the purity and liberty of the solitary life, others tackle social issues.  Despite his hermetic exile, Han Shan nonetheless attacked the injustices that plagued T'ang Dynasty China.  The targets of his poetic scorn vary from hypocritical monks to flesh-eaters. In accordance with. the Buddhist principle of protecting all forms of life, Han Shan saves his most acerbic barbs for those who destroy life to satiate desire.  Here's some advice for meat-eating people  Who eat without reflecting  Living things were formerly seeds  The future depends on current deeds  Seizing present joys  Unafraid of sorrows to comeTrue to his calling as a voice in the wilderness  Han Shan fills his poems with both instruction and admonition.  Nearly all the poems in this collection carry some sort of teachable lesson."Better to know nothing at all, to sit and not speak and have no cares...A straight mind means straight words."The richly evocative descriptions of nature so common to other Chinese poets are conspicuously muted here. Imagery and description both serve the main goal of transmitting wisdom and virtue.  Emerald mountains, jade streams, crane-like clouds are all present in these songs but always in support of some greater meaning.Those unschooled in Buddhist or Taoist thought will have a difficult time with the layers of scholarly allusion and metaphor found in many of these poems.  Thanks to translator Red Pine's copious notes, the reader can better understand each poem's meaning and message.Cold Mountain's best poems are glowing stars.  Their clarity and beauty set them apart.  Like the rocks and pines on which they were written, they read like nature itself.  Had Thoreau written his Walden in poetic fragments, the result might have been something similar to Cold Mountain's Songs."Deer live deep in the forest surviving on water and grass/But tie them up in a fancy hall and their loveliness fades."

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    Satirical poetry from old China
  

*by L***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 29, 2015*

This is a beautiful edition from Copper Canyon Press of the poems of Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and a few poems of two of his companions. Han Shan was a medieval Chinese poet, often considered part of the Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist tradition. In my opinion he owes more to the Taoists, but gets his morality from the Buddhists, and morality is the subject of a lot of the poems. He is often classified as a wilderness poet, but he is more of a satirist. Many of his poems are scathing denunciations of society, including Buddhist and Taoist religious society.The poems are short, but the book is long, containing 307 poems by Han Shan, 49 by Shih Te, and four by Feng Kan. Han Shan's style is simple and straightforward, lyrical at times and rhetorical, even invective, at others. For a wilderness poet, it doesn't demonstrate love of nature so much as love of simple living. For a religious poet, he is remarkably non-pious. He also has a sense of humor, which tempers his satire. Like much Chinese poetry, his is very allusive, which makes Red Pine's footnotes most helpful. The translation is line by line, sticking close to the original (as far as my limited Chinese could detect from the Chinese text on facing pages). Red Pine's style is clear and concise, without affectations.Han Shan is considered (at least by Americans) as a classic Zen poet, but to my ear he lacks the heavy symbolism and deliberate mystification I often associate with Zen poetics. I appreciate his freshness, vigor, humor, and austere advice.

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    Big Reputation, Second-Rate Talent
  

*by D***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 20, 2023*

I've read the poems of T'ao Chi'en, Hsieh Ling-Yun, Meng Hao-Jan, Li Po, Wang Wei, Tu Fu and others.  They all surpass these bland, often didactic and at times self-important writings. There are a few stanzas that do stand out, but this in a book of many, many stanzas.  I found the appended poems of Shih-te at the end to be the best thing about this book. There are just times when a writer's outsized reputation dwarfs his actual ability.  Think Hemingway.

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