Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell5/13/2023 He is a two-time winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. His translation of the Iliad was chosen as one of the New Yorker’s favorite books of 2011. Gilgamesh was Editor’s Choice of The New York Times Book Review, was selected as the Book Sense 2004 Highlight for Poetry, was a finalist for the first annual Quill Award in poetry. Mitchell’s Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke has been called “the most beautiful group of poetic translations century has produced.” William Arrowsmith said that his Sonnets to Orpheus “instantly makes every other rendering obsolete.” His Book of Job has been called “magnificent.” His bestselling Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, and Gilgamesh-which are not translations from the original text, but rather poetic interpretations that use existing translations into Western languages as their starting point-have also been highly praised by critics, scholars, and common readers. His many books include The Gospel According to Jesus, The Second Book of the Tao, two books of fiction, and a book of poetry. He is widely known for his ability to make old classics thrillingly new, to step in where many have tried before and to create versions that are definitive for our time. Stephen Mitchell was educated at Amherst College, the Sorbonne, and Yale University, and de-educated through intensive Zen practice.
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