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The spiritual philosophies from the East—from Islam to Buddhism—have influenced
our lives in the West. Wisdom of the East is a captivating
collection that brings together ancient teaching stories with contemporary
reflections by women and men who have been influenced by these philosophies.
The majority of entries are original, written by the leading writers and
authorities on Eastern thought. For more than a half-century, the
spiritual philosophies of the East—from India to Japan, from yoga to
Buddhism—have influenced our lives in the West. This captivating anthology
features fifty authors, among them leading teachers, writers, and practitioners
of the major spiritual traditions rooted in Asia, who share their favorite
teaching stories and poems, along with the wisdom they gained from them. This
combination of ancient text and contemporary memoir brings together simple
"turning words" and the sustaining, practical insights they inspire. <<buy now>>
Wisdom
of the East by Susan Suntree
The
Chinese Painting by Mary Wehner
This contemplative, early-morning poem, written at the edge of a lake in Wisconsin, evokes that pensive and peaceful moment at sunrise treasured by many. Birmingham artist Jane Marshall has studied the forms and habits of swans, the leading characters here, and gives us two drawings—sketches really—loose and full of motion. A poem broadside, handmade by Steve Miller in an edition of seventy-five copies, signed by the author, Fall 2003. The Perpetua types and line drawings are printed in three colors on a Vandercook proof press using photopolymer printing plates on slightly dampened Frankfurt Cream mouldmade paper, 8.5" by 15". <<buy now>>
Phantom Limb by Janet Sternburg
Phantom Limb is a wise and courageous memoir that moves
between past and present, chronicling an adult daughter's journey through the
final years of her parents' lives. A story of discovering love through
adversity, as well as an inquiry into contemporary neurology and spiritual life,
Phantom Limb is a moving meditation on the struggle to make peace with physical
and emotional ghosts of the past. Janet Sternburg writes with such warmth and
honesty that loss itself becomes luminous: "This is the grace of the last years,
the children coming to understand the contradictions in their parents, not to
reconcile them but encompass them in a larger love." <<buy now>>
The
Writer on Her Work edited by Janet Sternburg
Published to high praise this
was the first anthology to celebrate the diversity of women who write. Seventeen
novelists, poets, and writers of nonfiction explore how they became writers, why
they write, and what it means to be a woman and a writer. <<buy now>>
Subject
to Change by Marilyn L. Taylor
A sprightly collection of formal poems about an unusually wide range of subjects. Taylor writes with a light but incisive touch, rendering her poems with a warmth that is unafraid to dig into the darker regions of experience. <<buy now>>
Expecting
to Fly by Martha Tod Dudman
It starts with a blue hash pipe in a shabby
field and a hot, tight dance at the Mayflower Hotel, and rapidly accelerates
against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of the Sixties. Describing a time
weirdly similar to today, Expecting to Fly recalls a conservative government
embroiled in an increasingly unpopular war, racial tensions, and a generation of
disillusioned young people looking for something meaningful to believe in --
teenagers who, like Dudman, hurled themselves into a sea of drugs and sex they
weren't really ready for. With the same passion and brutal honesty that
she brought to her first book, Augusta, Gone -- the story of her daughter's
troubled adolescence -- Dudman re-creates her own wild ride through the
turbulent Sixties, vividly recounting scenes you probably experienced yourself.
From the prim tradition of a posh girls' school and debutante parties of
Washington, D.C., to the snows of New Hampshire and the campaign for Eugene
McCarthy, from living out of a knapsack in Spain to getting stoned on acid in
Yellow Springs, Ohio, Expecting to Fly takes us on a blistering trip to a time
when the only thing you couldn't be was shocked. Now, years later, Dudman
reflects on that time and what it means: "Which was it -- triumph, exploration,
some important journey, or just a big stupid mistake, a total waste of time?"
You decide. <<buy now>>