Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India

by Andrew Schelling (Translator)

Overview

“Refined, intense, wise, stirring, immediate, subtle, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition.”—Anne Waldman

Two thousand years have passed since the first of these poems were composed. A new introduction prefaces this expanded edition of Andrew Schelling’s remarkable translations.

Andrew Schelling is a poet and translator from Sanskrit. He teaches at Naropa Universityin Boulder, Colorado.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781893996922
Publisher:	White Pine Press
Publication date:	06/01/2008
Series:	Companions for the Journey , #15
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Andrew Schelling is a poet and translator from Sanskrit. He is on faculty of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Universityin Boulder, CO. His recent books include Tea Shack Interior: New and Selected Poems and Wild Form & Savage Grammar.

Editorial Reviews

"These dear ancients deserve a translator like Andrew Schelling: with gentle authority, he helps them raise their hands to bid time halt for a moment in our heads. Their brief translucent poems demonstrate the co-existence of past, present, and future in

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