David Hinton

David Hinton is the author of Hunger Mountain and Existence and the translator of many works of classical Chinese poetry and philosophy.

Magazine | Parting Words

Passing Below the Traverse Mountain Shrine-Tower in Autumn

Between shores, mountains welcome me,and in these river shallows, willows bow. Sunlight jostles water cascading through dragon’s whitewater scales. Why not stay? I’ll ask this shrine-tower the way through our surging and swelling world, and gaze…

By Yang Wan-li, translated by David Hinton

Fall 2026

Magazine |

Desert

New poetry from David Hinton

By David Hinton

Summer 2018

CultureMagazine | Insights

Returning to Occurrence

Rooted in ancient Taoist and Ch’an Buddhist thought, China’s “rivers-and-mountains” poetry represents one of the earliest encounters between wilderness and literature.

By David Hinton

Winter 2002

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