![]() He is also coauthor of three of his wife's bestselling books: Loving What Is, A Thousand Names for Joy, and A Mind at Home with Itself. His Selected Rilke has been called “the most beautiful group of poetic translations century has produced” (Chicago Tribune), his Gilgamesh was runner-up for the first annual Quill award for poetry, and his Iliad was one of the New Yorker's Favorite Books of 2011. He twice won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. ![]() Mitchell's translations and adaptions include the Tao Te Ching, which has sold over a million copies, Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, The Second Book of the Tao, and The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. He studied for four and a half years with Zen master Seungsahn and for two and a half years with Robert Baker Aitken, Rōshi. Stephen Mitchell was born to a Jewish family, educated at Amherst College, the University of Paris, and Yale University, and "de-educated" through intensive Zen practice. He is best known for his translations and adaptions of works including the Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, works of Rainer Maria Rilke, and Christian texts. ![]() Stephen Mitchell (born 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is a poet, translator, scholar, and anthologist. ![]()
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