Vermonter seeks true contact in a touch-screen world

Vermonter David Hinton is one of the most lauded modern English translators of classical Chinese poetry and philosophy. File photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDiggerDavid Hinton, according to his lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, “is the best English-language translator of classic Chinese poetry we have.”
The writer is also a humble resident of the Vermont village of East Calais. And so after becoming the first Westerner in more than a century to