Arthur Waley, Gary Snyder, Burton Watson and Red Pine are among the legendary translators who have taken on the work of T’ang Dynasty hermit poet Han Shan aka: Cold Mountain. Or make that poets from perhaps before the T’ang Dynasty, as Peter Levitt points out in a new book. Not one but perhaps three poets. The latest and perhaps most complete translation of Han Shan has been done by Levitt in collaboration with Kazuaki Tanahashi and published by Shambhala Press. The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Han Shan.

Find the original recordings of the interview with Peter Levitt on the Cold Mountain poems in the audio archive here: https://paulenelson.com/2019/02/27/2-22-2019-peter-levitt-interview/

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