Conversation with Murasaki

by Tom Lowenstein

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848610651
Publisher:	Shearsman Books
Publication date:	10/01/2009
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

Tom Lowenstein was born near London in 1941. After completing his education at Cambridge University, he taught for six years in English secondary schools. he has also taught English and creative writing at Northwestern University, worke for the Alaska State Museum and spent a year, in the mid-1970s, in an Alaskan Eskimo village, recording and translating its legends and histories. This work was later to bear fruit in a number of publications: Eskimo poems from Canada and Greenland; The Things That Were Said of Them: Shaman Stories and Oral Histories of the Tikigaq People (University of California Press, 1992); Ancient Land: Sacred Whale (Bloomsbury, 1993; Harvill, 2000). He has also written on Buddhism.