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...
"Tony Barnstone has no walls. He is alive moment to moment at the naked center. In his shrewd double vision, the animal self and the outside self mingle in ecstasy and grief of flesh. He is so surprising and fearless and cuts right to it, and yet so delicate and lyrical." --Ruth Stone "Plain-spoken and magical, this poet knows how to make imagination and the real world collide softly. Borders are crossed in the psyche and the flesh, and this collection seems like an elongated song that embraces the most elusive moments buried in language and nuance through the pure naming of things--a...
"Tony Barnstone has no walls. He is alive moment to moment at the naked center. In his shrewd double vision, the animal self and the outside self ming...
