Old Man Howling at the Moon - Johnson, Peter
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Peter Johnson has long been acclaimed by such poets as Russell Edson and Charles Simic as one of the masters of the prose poem. In his new book, Old Man Howling at the Moon, he continues his exploration of the genre, exhibiting his usual comic touch. Johnson calls these new poems "complaints" and traces his influences back to fourteenth-century France, while pointing out in the preface that his wise-fool Grumpy Old Everyman is also very much a part of a tradition, including writers as diverse as Allen Ginsberg, Catullus, and Nicanor Parra. Old Man Howling at the Moon is a welcome arrival at a…mehr

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Peter Johnson has long been acclaimed by such poets as Russell Edson and Charles Simic as one of the masters of the prose poem. In his new book, Old Man Howling at the Moon, he continues his exploration of the genre, exhibiting his usual comic touch. Johnson calls these new poems "complaints" and traces his influences back to fourteenth-century France, while pointing out in the preface that his wise-fool Grumpy Old Everyman is also very much a part of a tradition, including writers as diverse as Allen Ginsberg, Catullus, and Nicanor Parra. Old Man Howling at the Moon is a welcome arrival at a time when anger and satire are desperately needed to enliven a contemporary poetry scene where often fashionable irony reigns supreme.
Autorenporträt
The author/translator has previously published a ground-breaking translation of The Discourse on Realizing There is Only the Virtual Nature of Consciousness (Vijnapti Matrata Siddhi, ¿¿¿¿) by Xuanzang, an essential text of East Asian Buddhism from the School on the Practice of Engaged Meditation (Yogacara). The author has also published an in-depth study of The Heart Sutra (Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutra, ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) that includes translation of all versions of it in the East Asian Buddhist canon, translations of renowned commentaries on it by Fazang (of the Chinese Huayan School) and Kukai (of the Japanese Shingon School) as well as several essays from masters of the Huayan School on the seamless interpenetration found between the grace descending from the Buddha's spiritual life and the phenomena that constitute the mutually dependent conditions arising from sentient existence.