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    Stone-Garland
    The Last Pool of Darkness: The Connemara Trilogy
    Dreaming the Mountain: Poems by Tuệ Sỹ
    Ebook series4 titles

    Seedbank Series

    By Dan Beachy-Quick, Yuri Rytkheu, Galsan Tschinag and

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    About this series

    • The book is part of the publisher’s Seedbank series, which has been praised by the New York Times, influential booksellers, and adopted into classrooms
    • The author is the only woman to ever publish a book of poetry in Zoque (Indigenous language) and Spanish
    • This book is the first English translation of the author’s Zoque poems
    • The book’s engagement with language, Indigenous ways of living, gender, feminism, and environmental activism offer opportunities for wide coverage and reader engagement
    • For readers of Joy Harjo and Natalie Diaz
    • The book's introduction is authored by award-winning Indigenous poet Jake Skeets
    • Trilingual text, with Zoque, Spanish and English
    • Four-color interior, with the Zoque and Spanish poems set in color ink

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMilkweed Editions
    Release dateJan 1, 2002
    Stone-Garland
    The Last Pool of Darkness: The Connemara Trilogy
    Dreaming the Mountain: Poems by Tuệ Sỹ

    Titles in the series (4)

    • Dreaming the Mountain: Poems by Tuệ Sỹ
      Dreaming the Mountain: Poems by Tuệ Sỹ

      Dreaming the Mountain: Poems by Tuệ Sỹ

      Tuệ Sỹ
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      The North American debut of Tuệ Sỹ—poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam—and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank series. In addition to being a preeminent scholar of world philosophy and a Zen master, Tuệ Sỹ is one of Vietnam’s most celebrated poets. He is a survivor of sixteen years of imprisonment and an eloquent witness to the tumult, tragedy, and resilience of his country over the last sixty years—and a full-length translation of his work into English is long overdue. Assembled and co-translated by Vietnamese poet and essayist Nguyen Ba Chung and acclaimed American poet Martha Collins, Dreaming the Mountain reflects a lifetime of creation, crisis, and commitment. With poems presented on facing pages in Vietnamese and English, this volume includes the early imagism of Tuệ Sỹ’s Zen studies as a scholar and critic, midlife work that represents his attempted retreat from the devastation of war and subsequent years of imprisonment, and late, elliptical poems that give intensely lyrical expression to a lifetime of profound experience. From the “fleeting dream of red blood at dusk” to the quiet determination of one who sets out to “repaint the dawn,” these poems reflect the journey of an artist who speaks for his country, who captures its darkness and its light. At once personal and universal, coolly observant and deeply compassionate, the poems of Tuệ Sỹ bring singular attention to a fleeting, painfully beautiful world.

      The North American debut of Tuệ Sỹ—poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam—and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank series. In addition to being a preeminent scholar of world philosophy and a Zen master, Tuệ Sỹ is one of Vietnam’s most celebrated poets. He is a survivor of sixteen years of imprisonment and an eloquent witness to the tumult, tragedy, and resilience of his country over the last sixty years—and a full-length translation of his work into English is long overdue. Assembled and co-translated by Vietnamese poet and essayist Nguyen Ba Chung and acclaimed American poet Martha Collins, Dreaming the Mountain reflects a lifetime of creation, crisis, and commitment. With poems presented on facing pages in Vietnamese and English, this volume includes the early imagism of Tuệ Sỹ’s Zen studies as a scholar and critic, midlife work that represents his attempted retreat from the devastation of war and subsequent years of imprisonment, and late, elliptical poems that give intensely lyrical expression to a lifetime of profound experience. From the “fleeting dream of red blood at dusk” to the quiet determination of one who sets out to “repaint the dawn,” these poems reflect the journey of an artist who speaks for his country, who captures its darkness and its light. At once personal and universal, coolly observant and deeply compassionate, the poems of Tuệ Sỹ bring singular attention to a fleeting, painfully beautiful world.

    • Stone-Garland
      Stone-Garland

      Stone-Garland

      Dan Beachy-Quick
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      b>i>Anthology./i> The Greek origins of the word gesture at a bouquet, a garland; “a flower-logic, a petal-theory, a blossom-word.” In i>Stone-Garland/i>, Dan Beachy-Quick brings the term back to its roots, linking together the lives and words of six singular ancient Greeks./b> br>br> Simonides: honest servant to patrons. Anacreon: lustful singer, living on in the work of his acolytes. Archilochus: cruel critic, beloved of the Muses. Alcman: who took birds as his teachers. Theognis: chronicler of human excellence and vice. Callimachus: cosmopolitan head librarian at Alexandria. These are the poets who appear in these pages, sometimes in fragments, sometimes in sustained glimpses.br>br> Drawing inspiration from the i>Greek Anthology/i>, first drafted in the first century BC, Beachy-Quick presents translations filled with lovers and children, gods and insects, earth and water, ideas and ideals. Throughout, the line between the ancient and the contemporary blurs, and “the logic of how life should be lived decays wondrously into the more difficult possibilities of what life is.”br>br> Spare, earthy, lovely, i>Stone-Garland/i> offers readers of the Seedbank series its lyric blossoms and subtle weave, a walk through a cemetery that is also a garden.

      b>i>Anthology./i> The Greek origins of the word gesture at a bouquet, a garland; “a flower-logic, a petal-theory, a blossom-word.” In i>Stone-Garland/i>, Dan Beachy-Quick brings the term back to its roots, linking together the lives and words of six singular ancient Greeks./b> br>br> Simonides: honest servant to patrons. Anacreon: lustful singer, living on in the work of his acolytes. Archilochus: cruel critic, beloved of the Muses. Alcman: who took birds as his teachers. Theognis: chronicler of human excellence and vice. Callimachus: cosmopolitan head librarian at Alexandria. These are the poets who appear in these pages, sometimes in fragments, sometimes in sustained glimpses.br>br> Drawing inspiration from the i>Greek Anthology/i>, first drafted in the first century BC, Beachy-Quick presents translations filled with lovers and children, gods and insects, earth and water, ideas and ideals. Throughout, the line between the ancient and the contemporary blurs, and “the logic of how life should be lived decays wondrously into the more difficult possibilities of what life is.”br>br> Spare, earthy, lovely, i>Stone-Garland/i> offers readers of the Seedbank series its lyric blossoms and subtle weave, a walk through a cemetery that is also a garden.

    • The Last Pool of Darkness: The Connemara Trilogy
      The Last Pool of Darkness: The Connemara Trilogy

      The Last Pool of Darkness: The Connemara Trilogy

      Tim Robinson
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      In the second volume of his beloved Connemara trilogy, cartographer Tim Robinson continues to unearth the stories of this rich landscape in Ireland—weaving placelore, etymology, geology, and the meeting of sea and shore into the region’s mythologies. From the northern fiord waters of Killary Harbour to the southern sea-washed islands of Slyne Head, western Connemara awes with a rugged landscape: sloping cliffs, towering mountains, and the ever-present thudding of the Atlantic. And here, within the earth, resides the record of the past; stones with ash-grey centers reveal volcanic episodes, a series of mysteriously arranged quartz boulders reminds us of the ancient secrets held in the soil, and a long-disappeared lake filled in by sand lies beneath a golf course, waiting to be rediscovered. Mapping more than geography, Tim Robinson charts Connemara’s deep relationship to those who have inhabited its surface. The Last Pool of Darkness brims with tales of ghosts, centuries-old land disputes, periods of religious and political upheavals, philosophers entranced by the isolating landscape, poets, mathematicians, artists, fantastical smugglers, the discovery of botanical rarities, trickster fairies, and the delicate balance between humans and nature. Not merely a “certain tract of the Earth’s surface” but “an accumulation of connotations,” Robinson’s Connemara offers readers an opportunity to travel across space and time. A work of great precision and tenderness, The Last Pool of Darkness is an enchanting addition to the Seedbank series and next chapter in “one of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English” (Robert Macfarlane).

      In the second volume of his beloved Connemara trilogy, cartographer Tim Robinson continues to unearth the stories of this rich landscape in Ireland—weaving placelore, etymology, geology, and the meeting of sea and shore into the region’s mythologies. From the northern fiord waters of Killary Harbour to the southern sea-washed islands of Slyne Head, western Connemara awes with a rugged landscape: sloping cliffs, towering mountains, and the ever-present thudding of the Atlantic. And here, within the earth, resides the record of the past; stones with ash-grey centers reveal volcanic episodes, a series of mysteriously arranged quartz boulders reminds us of the ancient secrets held in the soil, and a long-disappeared lake filled in by sand lies beneath a golf course, waiting to be rediscovered. Mapping more than geography, Tim Robinson charts Connemara’s deep relationship to those who have inhabited its surface. The Last Pool of Darkness brims with tales of ghosts, centuries-old land disputes, periods of religious and political upheavals, philosophers entranced by the isolating landscape, poets, mathematicians, artists, fantastical smugglers, the discovery of botanical rarities, trickster fairies, and the delicate balance between humans and nature. Not merely a “certain tract of the Earth’s surface” but “an accumulation of connotations,” Robinson’s Connemara offers readers an opportunity to travel across space and time. A work of great precision and tenderness, The Last Pool of Darkness is an enchanting addition to the Seedbank series and next chapter in “one of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English” (Robert Macfarlane).

    • How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems
      How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

      How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

      Mikeas Sánchez
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      The book is part of the publisher’s Seedbank series, which has been praised by the New York Times, influential booksellers, and adopted into classrooms The author is the only woman to ever publish a book of poetry in Zoque (Indigenous language) and Spanish This book is the first English translation of the author’s Zoque poems The book’s engagement with language, Indigenous ways of living, gender, feminism, and environmental activism offer opportunities for wide coverage and reader engagement For readers of Joy Harjo and Natalie Diaz The book's introduction is authored by award-winning Indigenous poet Jake Skeets Trilingual text, with Zoque, Spanish and English Four-color interior, with the Zoque and Spanish poems set in color ink

      The book is part of the publisher’s Seedbank series, which has been praised by the New York Times, influential booksellers, and adopted into classrooms The author is the only woman to ever publish a book of poetry in Zoque (Indigenous language) and Spanish This book is the first English translation of the author’s Zoque poems The book’s engagement with language, Indigenous ways of living, gender, feminism, and environmental activism offer opportunities for wide coverage and reader engagement For readers of Joy Harjo and Natalie Diaz The book's introduction is authored by award-winning Indigenous poet Jake Skeets Trilingual text, with Zoque, Spanish and English Four-color interior, with the Zoque and Spanish poems set in color ink

    Author

    Dan Beachy-Quick

    Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and translator. His books include Variations on Dawn and Dusk, which was longlisted for the National Book Awards. His work has been supported by the Lannan, Monfort, and Guggenheim Foundations. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing.

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