LIBROS DEL AUTOR: tom lowenstein

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: tom lowenstein

  • The Bridge at Uji
    Tom Lowenstein
    Uji is now a suburb to the south of Kyoto and its bridge over the river was first constructed in the 10th century. At one end sits a modern representation of Murasaki who introduced the bridge into the last chapters of her novel, translated by Arthur Waley as The Tale of Genji. I sat by the bridge for half a day some years back watching the water flow in one direction while foo...
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  • From Culbone Wood - In Xanadu
    Tom Lowenstein
    In the voice of an eighteenth century poet who the previous afternoon had written ’Kubla Khan’, this long prose meditation takes the reader through an English pastoral landscape to the Central Asian steppe, the palaces and gardens of the Khan who ruled north China in the 13th century, and then back to rural Somerset. While Coleridge is implied, the garrulous and solipsistic per...
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  • Conversation with Murasaki
    Tom Lowenstein
    In contrast to the long, trans-cultural narratives of ’Ancestors and Species’, Tom Lowenstein’s new poetry is pared down in this volume to the briefest of utterances. A long expensive journey. The landscape // grown stranger. A space at the end // where there’s no more to interpret. ...
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    20,34 €

  • Ancestors and Species. New & Selected Ethnographic Poetry.
    Tom Lowenstein
    Tom Lowenstein’s work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising, above all, in the Inuit of Alaska) has always been interpenetrative, the poetic work deeply informed by the scholarly. This volume selects poetry from his whole career to date, concentrating on the faultline where his ethnographic concerns meet his poetic concerns. Poems have been selected from ’Filibustering in S...
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    17,86 €