Ancestors and Species. New & Selected Ethnographic Poetry

Tom Lowenstein's work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising, above all, in the Inuit of Alaska) has always been interpenetrative, the poetic work deeply informed by the scholarly. This volume selects poetry from his whole career to date, concentrating on the faultline where his ethnographic concerns meet his poetic concerns. Poems have been selected from 'Filibustering in Samsara' and 'Ancient Land: Sacred Whale', as well as from more recent uncollected work. 'Ancestors and Species' makes it clear that Tom Lowenstein is one of Britain's most remarkable poetic voices, at the same time fascinating, and impossible to categorise.

About the author

Tom Lowenstein has taught English in London and at Northwestern University since the mid-1960s. The final volume of his trilogy based on work in north Alaska was published in 2009. He studied Sanskrit and Pali at SOAS, Cambridge and the University of Washington. His poetry collections include Filibustering in Samsara, Ancestors and Species and Conversation with Murasaki.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Lowenstein
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2005
• EAN: 9780907562740
• ISBN: 978-0-907562-74-0
• No. of pages: 156
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 237 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh