Lewis Hyde is a major cultural figure, most famous for his perennial best-seller The Gift
Includes ten sumi ink-wash paintings by New York artist by artist Max Gimblett
The Disappearing Ox sees translation in a revolutionary new way, with Hyde including three different versions of the classical Chinese side-by-side-by-side, allowing readers to discover many levels of these poems
Lewis Hyde is regarded as a patron saint of the countercultural movement, with his book The Gifthaving been widely praised by David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith, and adopted as a "theory bible" of the Burning Man festival
