In a Dark Time … The Eye Begins to See

In my continuing attempts to better understand Chinese and Japanese poetic traditions, I recently bought David Hinton’s book The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan, a Chinese poet who lived from 689 to 740 C.E. Hinton’s short but informative introduction clearly places Meng within the “wilderness (literally rivers-and-mountains) tradition that is the heart of Chinese [...]