|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
1 Review
|
Average Customer Review
Share your thoughts with other customers
Create your own review
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A collage of visual improvisation and translated poetry.,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Paradise of Poets: New Poems and Translations (Paperback)
A Paradise Of Poets: New Poems & Translations is a new collection of collage, visual improvisation, and translated poetry inspired by poets and artists that Jerome Rothenberg (himself a renowned poet) has personally known or who have somehow touched his life: Nakahara Chuya, Jackson Mac Low, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Federico Garcia Larca, Kurt Schwitters, and Vitezslav Nezval. The Treasures of Dunhuang (2000 Buddhas): a faceless buddha/a black buddha/buddhas with silver mustaches/& chin hairs/three transvestite buddhas/buddha with heads/around his head---/dozens of whirling heads/2000 buddhas/crouching buddha--/slits for eyes--/looks sleepy/a buddha with a dozen faces/& a thousand hands with eyes/buddha holds a fern--/he wears a scabbard/& the scabbard grows a hand/rays stream from buddha's eyes/--or tears/eyes wide in terror/open anguished mouth with fangs/he holds a dish with flaming eyes/but haloed/can this be buddha too?/think buddha/starving buddha/sitting hand to chin/& smiling.
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
A Paradise of Poets: New Poems and Translations by Jerome Rothenberg (Paperback - Oct. 1999)
$14.95
In Stock | |
 
| ||
