Desert: Poems

The first collection of original poetry by the renowned nature writer and highly lauded translator of the Chinese classics.

Traveling today I
found a river somewhere inside me, wondered

how far it wanders there

and how much sky it mirrors. All day long, wind and desert


light, I
followed that river’s distances . . .

Weaving mind and landscape together in meditations on sky and wind, ridgeline and horizon, existence and self, Desert marks David Hinton’s first collection of original poetry...