How Long to Read The Heart of Cold Mountain

How Long Does it Take to Read The Heart of Cold Mountain?

It takes the average reader and 59 minutes to read The Heart of Cold Mountain by Son Rivers

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

These 40 poems are transcreations of translations of Chinese poems by the poet Cold Mountain, or Han Shan. By transcreations, I mean they are reworkings and interpretations of at least three translators of each poem (I myself know no Chinese). By triangulating those three translations, one can come to a place between the three, and quite possibly a closer approximation to the original. As to the translators, I have relied on a core of five. I visited Red Pine and Hendricks for all 40, Burton Watson for 24, Tanahashi/Levitt for 22, and Snyder for 14.But who is Cold Mountain? The truth is no one really knows. Is he even a single person? Edwin Pulleyblank concludes there were two poets. Tanahashi surmises from his own analysis there were three including one who was "a dedicated or fully inclined Daoist." My own reading had lead me to a similar conclusion two years ago. There must have been at least two poets, and the forty poems I've transcreated are, I simply sense, most of the major nondual Taoist poetry, as compared to the lesser Buddhist religious poems within the collection. I feel these are the heart of Cold Mountain.

How long is The Heart of Cold Mountain?

The Heart of Cold Mountain by Son Rivers is 58 pages long, and a total of 14,964 words.

This makes it 20% the length of the average book. It also has 18% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Heart of Cold Mountain Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 21 minutes to read The Heart of Cold Mountain aloud.

What Reading Level is The Heart of Cold Mountain?

The Heart of Cold Mountain is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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