Finding the Way Home - Poems of Awakening and Transformation

About the author

Dennis Maloney is a poet and translator. His works of translation include The Poet and the Sea: Poems of Juan Ramon Jimenez, The House in the Sand by Pablo Neruda , The Landscape of Castile by Antonio Machado and Between the Floating Mist: Poems of Ryokan. His most recent volume of poetry is Just Enough.

Summary

Good poetry contains the kind of knowledge we search for, the kind that resonates in the heart as well as the mind. The poems in this anthology are timeless, spanning two millenniums, and are drawn from many different centuries and cultures. The voices range from ancient China, Japan, and India to contemporary America and Europe. What they share is a living spirit that can help us change the way we see ourselves, and the world.
Contributors include Han-shan, Du Fu, Li Po, Ryokan, Issa, Yosa Buson, Ikkyu, Rumi, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Tomas Tranströmer, Rolf Jacobsen, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Denise Levertov, Jane Hirshfield, Gary Snyder, Joseph Bruchac, Sam Hamill, James Wright, Ilya Kaminsky, Robert Bly, and many others.

Foreword

Advance review copies to major media including poetry periodicals, buddhist and new age magazines. Pitching excerpts to a number of magazines including Tricycle, Shambala Sun Ads in Rain Taxi and other periodicals

Product details

• Assisted by: Dennis Maloney (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9781935210122
• ISBN: 978-1-935210-12-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 180 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 191 g
• Series: Companions for the Journey; Companions for the Journey (Wh; Companions for the Journey; Companions for the Journey (Wh
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Esoterics: general, reference works