The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-Yun

""There are waters tumbling a thousand feet in flight/ and forests curtained high over countless canyons"" in The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yin, newly translated by David Hinton. Exiled from the Chinese court, Hsieh (385-433 C.E.) explored the wilderness and composed verse about it, inaugurating over a thousand years of Chinese nature poetry. Hinton whose other translations include the classical Chinese poets Li Po and Tu Fu renders Hsieh in an English both concise and flowing. (Nov.)