Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry by Andrew Schelling

Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry by Andrew Schelling

Poetry. An abecedarian cento of New York School poems, this piece was first delivered in March 1996 at The Popular Culture Association Conference. As Gizzi notes: ODE: SALUTE TO THE NEW YORK SCHOL is a cento, a late Roman verse form made up of lines from other sources. First, I put together a chronological bibliography of over 100 books published by New York poets from 1950 to 1970. Many of these books are deeply out of print so I had to do some real digging. Then I extracted lines from each book to compose the cento. Happily, Clark Coolidge supplied lines from the books I couldn't find. The cento also works as an index to the bibliography. The combined bibliography and cento form the libretto to a musical work for the composer Richard Alan Applebaum. My intention was to make what I call a 'performing bibliography.' Since this is, in effect, what most of us do on a daily basis--referring to or performing what we've read--it seemed a useful metaphor to describe how we enact our reading practice. My idea was that a simple accompaniment to a series of bibliographic entries could generate both scholarly information and an emotive effect. I wanted to express the latent desire for lists and order, and to create a texture to accommodate the eros inherent in research. What I learned along the way is that literary movements survive primarily in the ruins of the texts they leave behind rather than in the unified literary histories that we create for them after the fact.

Andrew Schelling is a resident of the bioregion of the Southern Rocky Mountains. He has worked on issues such as land use in the American West, ecology, wildlife conservation, and wolf reintroduction. Poetry, essays, anthologies, and translations are among his twenty volumes. He has studied Sanskrit and Indian raga for thirty years and has published seven collections of translations from India's early poets. In recent years, he has investigated animal trails and the grammar of the biological world, as well as Native American languages.

THE TRUE PEOPLE OF WIND AND RAIN: TALKS, ESSAYS, AND AN INTERVIEW (Singing Horse Press, 2014), FROM THE ARAPAHO SONGBOOK (La Alameda Press, 2011), and The Oxford Anthology of Bhakti Literature (Oxford University Press, 2011) are recent volumes. He lectures at Deer Park Institute in India's architecturally magnificent and bird-filled Himalayan foothills, as well as at Naropa University in Colorado.

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ISBN 13	9780861713929
ISBN 10	0861713923
Title	Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry
Author	Andrew Schelling
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wisdom Publications,U.S.
Year published	2005-05-01
Number of pages	416
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