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Erotic Love Poems Finds Wisdom in Sensuality
The delicate poetry of 7th-century Indian lets us take a peek at a time when the erotic and the spiritual went hand-in-hand.
The delicate poetry of 7th-century Indian lets us take a peek at a time when the erotic and the spiritual went hand-in-hand.
A Sanskrit translator looks back.
New translations of ancient Indian verses
Andrew Schelling on a new biography of Philip Whalen
“It was unthinkable that a poem should get no reply.” This sentence from The Tale of Genji, Japan’s profoundly melancholy Buddhist novel written around the year 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, marks the formalization of a particular approach to poetry. Poem responding to poem seems the basis of Murasaki’s worldview. Her book includes nearly eight hundred […]
Andrew Schelling reviews Gary Snyder’s book, This Present Moment
A new translation of the first anthology of women’s spiritual poetry
A poem by Andrew Schelling
Bitter buffaloberrydevil’s club, tangled dogtoothnarrowleaf arrowheadWhat are the lineages of life?ground water, radiant heat—listen, they form the underlying beatof the watershed,gifts with no motive the way of the ancientsskyrocket chicory bluestemfew-flowered shooting starIndian pipeall the paradise you need’s outside your doorthe medicine Buddha wears a lapis lazuli headdressfeathers & turquoise beadscan you give thanks with […]
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