This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. - Format: Paperback
- Author: Louise Landes Levi
- ISBN10: 1887276556
- ISBN13: 9781887276559
THE BOOK L, LLLs second full length poetry book fr. Cool Grove consists of journal entries, poems l essay - for the most part written on Isla Margarita, VE. while on retreat w. NN Rimpoche. Recalling predecessors Joanne Kyger Philip Whalen West Coast, USA it develops themes of impermanence, romance the dangers of elitism in so calle 3rd. world as its author inwardly explores the relation between community skt -sanga the private communion which is thepoets domain. The title is taken fr. the ground breaking work of Dutch Dadaist, Bert Schierbeck HET BOEK IK whose Zen Gardens, published in Amsterdam translated into English by Charles McGeehan in the 1960s was a semnal introduction of Buddhist thought practice to the Avant Guard. The Book L, 2005 selections of which are available on line at Otoliths Melancholias Tremulous Dreadlocks see http: //the-otolith.blogspot.com/2006/07/louise-landes-levi-nine-sections-from.html http: //mtdmagazine.tripod.com/louiselandeslevi.htm is followed, in this generous offering of the poets work by excerpts fr. HOTEL GAIA a collection of retreat other poems, written primarily in Toscana, IT. 1985-1995 dedicated to poet visive Franco Beltrametti translator of Han Shans COLD MOUNTAIN into Italian - A Spiritual Autobiography, the authors short autobiographical essay W. Palm Beach - NYC 2001 . The entire volume will follow in Cool Groves tradition of illustrated text, see LLLs previous GURU PUNK, Cool Grove Pr., 1999 Sweet On My Lips, The Love Poems of Mira Bai, translated fr. the Medieval Hindi, 1997. Cover Art Barbara Mohr, collage LLL, fr. postcard series, Isla M., 2006
