ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS

SAM HAMILL has translated more than two dozen books from ancient Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Latin, and Estonian. He has published fourteen volumes of original poetry, including Almost Paradise, and four collections of literary essays. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Mellon Fund. He was recently awarded the Decoración de la Universidad de Carabobo in Venezuela, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry from Washington Poets Association, and the PEN American Freedom to Write Award. He cofounded and served as Editor at Copper Canyon Press for thirty-two years and is presently the Director of Poets Against War. He divides his time between Port Townsend, Washington, and Buenos Aires.

J. P. SEATON is Professor of Chinese at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has served since 1968. He is the translator of numerous books, and his poetry translations have been widely anthologized in such books as The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry, The Norton Anthology of World Poetry, and The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry.

 

 

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