<p>In this very modestly-priced edition, there are twenty-four transcreations of the poems (vakhs) of Lal Ded from a nondual point of view. Although not strictly translations, each one follows closely and carefully the translation, commentary, and language notes of Grierson (a reference number to Grierson's translation is included in each title) and other works which reference to Grierson as well, to tease out the message of the Lal Ded poem as I hear it in its energetic and rhythmic movement of wisdom. They are written in the deepest respect for the poet in an earnest attempt to display the intent behind her incomparable words. A bibliography of the translations of Lal Ded used in this work is included for further research or enjoyment by any inquisitive reader.</p>

Lalla Awakens: Nondual Poetry of Lal Ded

Literature & Fiction

Lalla

Ded, Lal

Rivers, Son

Lalleshwari

Poetry

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<p>These 40 poems are transcreations of translations of Chinese poems by the poet Cold Mountain, or Han Shan. By transcreations, I mean they are reworkings and interpretations of at least three translators of each poem (I myself know no Chinese). By triangulating those three translations, one can come to a place between the three, and quite possibly a closer approximation to the original. As to the translators, I have relied on a core of five. I visited Red Pine and Hendricks for all 40, Burton Watson for 24, Tanahashi/Levitt for 22, and Snyder for 14. But who is Cold Mountain? The truth is no one really knows. Is he even a single person? Edwin Pulleyblank concludes there were two poets. Tanahashi surmises from his own analysis there were three including one who was “a dedicated or fully inclined Daoist.” My own reading had lead me to a similar conclusion two years ago. There must have been at least two poets, and the forty poems I’ve transcreated are, I simply sense, most of the major nondual Taoist poetry, as compared to the lesser Buddhist religious poems within the collection. I feel these are the heart of Cold Mountain.</p>

The Heart of Cold Mountain: Transcreations of the Taoist Hermit Poet Han Shan

Shan, Han

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