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An exploration of the emerging Western consciousness of how deeply we belong to the wild Cosmos, as seen through the lineage of modern America's great avant-garde poets —a thrilling journey with today's premier translator of the Chinese classics.Henry David Thoreau, in The Maine Woods, describes a moment on Mount Ktaadin when all explanations and assumptions fell away for him and he was confronted with the wonderful, inexplicable thusness of things. David Hinton takes that moment as the starting point for his account of a rewilding of consciousness in the West: a dawning awareness of our essential oneness with the world around us. Because there was no Western vocabulary for this perception, it fell to poets to make the first efforts at articulation, and those efforts were largely driven by Taoist and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhist ideas imported from ancient China. Hinton chronicles this rewilding through the lineage of avant-garde poetry in twentieth-century America—from Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound and Robinson Jeffers to Gary Snyder, W. S. Merwin, and beyond—including generous selections of poems that together form a compelling anthology of ecopoetry. In his much-admired translations, Hinton has re-created ancient Chinese rivers-and-mountains poetry as modern American poetry; here, he reenvisions modern American poetry as an extension of that ancient Chinese tradition: an ecopoetry that weaves consciousness into the Cosmos in radical and fundamental ways.AdvertisingShow More An Exploration Of The Emerging Western Consciousness Of The Mystery Of Existence, As Seen Through The Work Of The Great American Poets From Walt Whitman To Gary Snyder --a Thrilling Journey With Today's Premier Translator Of The Chinese Classics. David Hinton Sees In The West Beginning In The Nineteenth Century The Dawning Of A Larger Consciousness Such As Seemed To Happen In Asia Much Longer Ago: An Opening Up Of Mind And Heart To Something Infinitely More Mysterious And Inexpressible Than Previous Concepts Allowed. It's An Understanding That Went Against The Grain Of Western Religion And Philosophy Up Till That Point, And For Which Western Models Just Didn't Apply. Because This Perception Didn't Fit The Usual Western Models, Those Who Came Up Against It Grappled With Ways To Express It. David Holds That The First Expressions Of This Dawning Consciousness Emerged Among The Great American Poets, Whose Expression Of The Mystery Often Has An Experimental Freshness To It, As It Comes From The Period Before Things Get Conceptualized And Codified. He Takes Us On A Journey Through The Work Of Fifteen American Poets In Whose Work He Sees The Great Matter Expressed, Providing With Each Chapter A Sampling Of Their Work-- Machine Generated Contents Note: Procreant Wilds / Walt Whitman -- China Wilds / Ezra Pound -- Local Wilds / William Carlos Williams -- Coastal Wilds / Robinson Jeffers -- Mountain Wilds / Kenneth Rexroth -- Mind Wilds / Charles Olson -- No-mind Wilds / John Cage -- Wild Wilds / Gary Snyder -- Mammal Wilds / Michael Mcclure -- Primal Wilds / Jerome Rothenberg -- Nameless Wilds / W. S. Merwin -- Meaningless Wilds / A. R. Ammons -- Contact Wilds / Larry Eigner -- Mosaic Wilds / Ronald Johnson -- Origin Wilds / Gustaf Sobin. David Hinton. An exploration of the emerging Western consciousness of how deeply we belong to the wild Cosmos, as seen through the lineage of modern America's great avant-garde poets--a thrilling journey with today's premier translator of the Chinese classics. Henry David Thoreau, in The Maine Woods, describes a moment on Mount Ktaadin when all explanations and assumptions fell away for him and he was confronted with the wonderful, inexplicable thusness of things. David Hinton takes that moment as the starting point for his account of a rewilding of consciousness in the a dawning awareness of our essential oneness with the world around us. Because there was no Western vocabulary for this perception, it fell to poets to make the first efforts at articulation, and those efforts were largely driven by Taoist and Chan (Zen) Buddhist ideas imported from ancient China. Hinton chronicles this rewilding through the lineage of avant-garde poetry in twentieth-century Americafrom Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound and Robinson Jeffers to Gary Snyder, W. S. Merwin, and beyondincluding generous selections of poems that together form a compelling anthology of ecopoetry. In his much-admired translations, Hinton has re-created ancient Chinese rivers-and-mountains poetry as modern American poetry; here, he reenvisions modern American poetry as an extension of that ancient Chinese an ecopoetry that weaves consciousness into the Cosmos in radical and fundamental ways. "An exploration of the emerging Western consciousness of the mystery of existence, as seen through the work of the great American poets from Walt Whitman to Gary Snyder --a thrilling journey with today's premier translator of the Chinese classics. David Hinton sees in the West beginning in the nineteenth century the dawning of a larger consciousness such as seemed to happen in Asia much longer ago: an opening up of mind and heart to something infinitely more mysterious and inexpressible than previous concepts allowed. It's an understanding that went against the grain of Western religion and philosophy up till that point, and for which Western models just didn't apply. Because this perception didn't fit the usual Western models, those who came up against it grappled with ways to express it. David holds that the first expressions of this dawning consciousness emerged among the great American poets, whose expression of the mystery often has an experimental freshness to it, as it comes from the period before things get conceptualized and codified. He takes us on a journey through the work of fifteen American poets in whose work he sees the Great Matter expressed, providing with each chapter a sampling of their work"-- Provided by publisher