The ancient Chinese regarded the written word as a transformative force able to move heaven and earth and unite the reader with the source of all things, the Tao. The power of writing, especially poetry, is celebrated here in short texts that present both practical instruction and spiritual insight: - Lu Ji's essay in verse, -The Art of Writing, - reveals the inner process every writer must go through in preparing for the creative act. - Sikong Tu's -Twenty-four Styles of Poetry- teaches that poets must perfect themselves internally in order to achieve perfection in what they write....
The ancient Chinese regarded the written word as a transformative force able to move heaven and earth and unite the reader with the source of all thin...
The Golem of Los Angeles is the 2006 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award winning poetry collection by Tony Barnstone.
"Tony Barnstone s poems are besotted with the world slot machines in Vegas, ants and centipedes and rivers, fires and beaches and filtered forest light, love in its carnal splendor, and the charnel squalor when love dies. Yet the Contents page in The Golem of Los Angeles full of Psalms, Parables, Testaments, Sermons, Sutras, even the occasional Spell makes clear that Barnstone s deepest impulse is religious: to praise and to pray. I praise this book. May...
The Golem of Los Angeles is the 2006 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award winning poetry collection by Tony Barnstone.
