GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT is given to the Publishers of the following books from which poems and essays in this anthology are excerpted:

The Late Poems of Meng Chiao (tr. by David Hinton), published by Princeton University Press. Copyright © 1996 by Princeton University Press.

Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China (tr. by David Hinton), published by Counterpoint. Copyright © 2002 by David Hinton.

Shih-Ching: The Classical Anthology Defined by Confucius (by Ezra Pound), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1954, 1982 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Axe Handles (by Gary Snyder), published by North Point Press and reprinted by arrangement with Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Copyright © 1983 by Gary Snyder.

Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (by Gary Snyder), published by North Point Press and reprinted by arrangement with Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Copyright © 1958, 1959, 1965 by Gary Snyder.

The Gary Snyder Reader, published by Counterpoint. Copyright © 1999 by Gary Snyder.

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