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Zusatztext Praise for Tracks Along the Left Coast " Tracks Along the Left Coast more than accomplishes its self-appointed task of celebrating de Angulo’s legacy." — Rain Taxi "Schelling's biography of Jaime de Angulo—'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo,' among other things—presents a fascinating, full-bodied portrait of a man and an era, as well as delving deep into California's Native history. De Angulo's isn't a household name, but in Schelling's work the man called by Ezra Pound the 'American Ovid' comes blazing to life in all his singular brilliance." —Stephen Sparks, Literary Hub "Jaime de Angulo! If you could corral into one volume all the legends he inspired, you would already have given us a book worth reading, but poet Andrew Schelling has been able, in this magnificent, long-awaited biography, to reshape the myth into a human being. In a larger frame, Tracks Along the Left Coast illustrates something of the troubling ease with which Modernism, hand in hand with the new science of anthropology, fixed and adapted what it imagined as 'the Primitive.' As his personal evanescence flickered and burned through the decades, de Angulo shot direction into the skies; we see why generations of Western poets, musicians, and artists were drawn to him, beyond that brilliant intellect. Through California foothills his horse galloped him, naked but for a jockstrap: if you blinked you would miss him." —Kevin Killian, author of Poet Be Like God and Impossible Princess Praise for The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry "In a rich preface and introduction to this volume, editor Andrew Schelling insightfully places poetry firmly at the center of North American Buddhist engagement. Significantly, in the kind of bold gesture that we saw in his exceptional essay collection Wild Form, Savage Grammar ,Schelling contends as a consequence of Buddhism's gradual migration and evolution throughout Southern, Southeast, Central, and East Asia, and now the Americas, poets from these regions themselves collectively comprise 'a tangle of unnamed but deeply influential lineages' within the religion's 2500-year teaching tradition… There is so much one could say about this compendium, especially from gilt-edged sages like Snyder, Kyger, and Sze. As a Wisdom edition its production values are underscored by integrity throughout, and though other Buddhist poetry collections are available these days, nothing else comes close to the excitement packed into this one. [...] [Mike] O'Connor, Master Red Pine, and Han Shan—they go together like ham 'n eggs and hashbrowns, and even tofu aficionados will find plenty to read and love in Schelling's gritty anthology, where thanks to the Buddha, the hits just keep on coming." — Pacific Rim Review of Books "Erudite, up-to-the-moment, delightful, diverse. Everyone will find favorites they'll want to copy and share with friends." —Gary Gach, editor of What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop " The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry , edited by Andrew Schelling, provides a sweeping overview of modern poetry as viewed by writers whose lives have been influenced by Buddhist philosophy and theology. Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder are the most famous poets here, but don't worry if you don't recognize many of the others by name. You will recognize the power of their language, the brilliance of their observational skills and the majesty of their art." — New York Resident Praise for The Cane Groves of Narmada River " The Cane Groves is a brilliant selection of refined, provocative, shivery-lovely poems. It has a generous bibliography and an astute introduction that illuminates both poetics and scholarship with its insights into wealth of nature imagery, the...
