A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry
EDITORS
J.P. Seaton and Dennis Maloney
This anthology gathers together over 1500 years of Chinese Zen (Ch'an) poetry from the earliest writing, including the Hsin Hsin Ming written by the 3rd Patriarch, to the poetry of monks in this century. Poets include Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Yuan Mei, the crazy hermits Han-shan and Shih-te, as well as many anonymous monks and hermits.
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J.P. Seaton is an American educator and translator. He is a Professor Emeritus of Chinese and Asian studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is well known as a translator of classical Chinese poetry. His translations have been widely anthologized.
Dennis Maloney is a poet and translator. A number of volumes of his own poetry have been published including The Map Is Not the Territory: Poems & Translations and Just Enough, and Listening to Tao Yuan Ming. A bilingual German/English volume, Empty Cup was published in Germany in 2017. Recent collections include The Things I Notice Now and The Faces of Guan Yin. His poems have been translated into more than a dozen languages.