Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. "Wonderful forays into the past, present, and future of the world's continents"-Jan Willis. TEA SHACK INTERIOR brings together writings from six of Schelling's earlier books together with previously unpublished work. Well known for his translations from Sanskrit and as an interpreter of Eastern culture to the West, Andrew Schelling, in the words of poet Patrick Pritchett, "belongs to a small group of poets who are actively engaged with the rhythms and pulses of the natural world." "Here is a sudden opening into a little known world of poetics and exquisite spiritual ferocity"-Gary Snyder. Schelling is the author of many other books available at SPD, including THE HANDFUL OF SEEDS, THE ROAD TO OCOSINGO, and THE CANE GROVES OF NARMADA RIVER.
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Here is a sudden opening into a little known world of poetics and exquisite spiritual ferocity. (Gary Snyder, on Schelling's The India Book)
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Wonderful forays into the past, present, & future of the world`s continents. (Joanne Kyger on Schelling's Old Growth)
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These verses soar. (Jan Willis on The Cane Groves of Narmada River)
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One of those rare books of perfect economy. (Patrick Pritchett on The Road to Ososingo)
Synopsis
Andrew Schelling teaches poetry, Sanskit, and wilderness writing at Naropa University, where he served as chair of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics from 1994-1997. A translator, ecolology activist, and essayist, he has traveled extensively in India and the Himalayas, and taught and given readings in North America, Mexico, and Europe. His translations received the award for translation from the Academy of American Poets in 1992.
Synopsis
"Tean Shack Interior: New and Selected Poems" gathers writings from six books, as well as a configuration of previously uncollected writings. Schelling is well known for his translations from the Sanskrit and as an interpreter of Eastern culture to the West. In the words of poet Patrick Pritchett, he 'belongs to a small company of poets who are actively engaged with the rhythms and pulses of the natural world.' Profoundly responsive to the wilderness (Schelling lives in the foothills of the Rockies), he has emerged as one of the country's most sensitive interpreters of the natural world. In this, he extends traditions rooted in Thoreau and New England Transcendentalism.
Description
_Tea Shack Interior: New & Selected Poems_ gathers writings from six books, as well as a configuration of previously uncollected writings. Schelling is well known for his translations from the Sanskrit and as an interpreter of Eastern culture to the West. In the words of poet Patrick Pritchett, he `belongs to a small company of poets who are actively engaged with the rhythms and pulses of the natural world.` Profoundly responsive to the wilderness (Schelling lives in the foothills of the Rockies), he has emerged as one of the country`s most sensitive interpreters of the natural world. In this, he extends traditions rooted in Thoreau and New England Transcendentalism.
About the Author
Andrew Schelling is the author or editor of fifteen books and numerous chapbooks. He is the preeminent translator into English of India's early poetry, most of which is secular, erotic, and grounded in close observation of the natural world. His first book of translations, Dropping the Bow: Poems from Ancient India, has just been released from White Pine Press in a revised edition. When it first came out in 1991 it received the Academy of American Poets translation award. He teaches poetry and Sanskrit at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He is also a founding arts faculty at Deer Park Institute in Himachal Pradesh, India.