Join us as we count down to ALTA42: Sight and Sound with the National Translation Award in Poetry and Prose long- and shortlisted titles! We will be featuring the titles in alphabetical order alongside blurbs penned by our judges for the National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose. This year’s prose judges are Bonnie Huie, Charlotte Mandell, and Jeffrey Zuckerman. This year’s judges for poetry are Anna Deeny Morales, Cole Heinowitz, and Sholeh Wolpe.

For quick reference, you may find the NTA longlists here, and the NTA shortlists here. Today we’re shining the spotlight on Poetry NTA longlisted title The Complete Cold Mountain:

The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan
by Hanshan
translated from the Chinese by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt
(Shambhala Publications)

Presented as poems of possibly three poets attributed to a single mysterious poet, Hanshan, this deeply inspiring collection opens the heart and the mind to contemplative Buddhist ideas like origin, essence, and purpose, as well as peace, pain and suffering. Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt’s gorgeous translation of this timeless work reflects their deep appreciation for the original text’s simplicity of language and complexity of thought.