Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India

About the author

Andrew Schelling is a poet and translator from Sanskrit. He is on faculty of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, CO. His recent books include Tea Shack Interior: New and Selected Poems and Wild Form & Savage Grammar.

Summary

"Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtle, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow."--Anne Waldman

Foreword

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Additional text

"These dear ancients deserve a translator like Andrew Schelling: with gentle authority, he helps them raise their hands to bid time halt for a moment in our heads. Their brief translucent poems demonstrate the co-existence of past, present, and future in

Product details

• Assisted by: Andrew Schelling (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2008
• EAN: 9781893996922
• ISBN: 978-1-893996-92-2
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 177 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 134 g
• Series: Companions for the Journey; Companions for the Journey (Wh; Companions for the Journey; Companions for the Journey (Wh
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies