Waking to Snow - Couverture souple

MacLean, Robert

 
9784907359331: Waking to Snow
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 4907359330 ISBN 13 : 9784907359331
Editeur : Isobar Press, 2020

Synopsis

Poems that gaze and listen: What is stillness? Can you hold emptiness?


Waking to Snow tracks twenty-five years of living in Kyoto. The poems are arranged roughly chronologically, in four sections, following the rhythms of the seasons, of Zen practice and sesshin retreats, along with poems about brief returns to Canada to visit aging parents, childhood memories, and academic and married life. Throughout, many poems attempt to decipher 'the lost languages' of nature: rice-seedlings, snails, chickadees, flowers, cicadas, heron, crickets, a bush warbler, an abandoned kitten, stars, trees, weather, wind, snow. At the very heart of the book is 'Still', a stunningly powerful sequence of eighteen poems describing the anguish of a stillbirth.

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À propos de l?auteur

Born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Robert MacLean has published five books of poetry. A former tree planter with a doctorate on Blake from the University of Edinburgh and long experience in Zen, he lived in Kyoto, Japan, for twenty-five years, teaching at Ritsumeikan University. He now lives in the North Okanagan, British Columbia.

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Éditeur
Isobar Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
4907359330
ISBN 13 
9784907359331
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
84
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Personne responsable
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