Mountain Poems of Stonehouse by Stonehouse and translated by Red Pine

This is poetry from China.

Mountain Poems of Stonehouse by Stonehouse translated by Red Pine is published by Copper Canyon Press. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781556594557E12.

Mountain Poems of Stonehouse, by Stonehouse, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Red Pine, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2014. It is a Chinese collection by the poet-monk Stonehouse, translated by Red Pine, rooted in mountain solitude and contemplative perception. These poems invite the reader to slow down until landscape, practice, weather, and mind begin to feel less separate. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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