From Culbone Wood - In Xanadu - Softcover

Lowenstein, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184861229X ISBN 13: 9781848612297

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2013

Synopsis

In the voice of an eighteenth century poet who the previous afternoon had written 'Kubla Khan', this long prose meditation takes the reader through an English pastoral landscape to the Central Asian steppe, the palaces and gardens of the Khan who ruled north China in the 13th century, and then back to rural Somerset. While Coleridge is implied, the garrulous and solipsistic persona who talks through these journals, essays and fantasias is an a-historical figure who lives largely in, and for imagination.

About this title

About the Author:

Tom Lowenstein was born near London in 1941. After completing his education at Cambridge University, he taught for six years in English secondary schools. he has also taught English and creative writing at Northwestern University, worke for the Alaska State Museum and spent a year, in the mid-1970s, in an Alaskan Eskimo village, recording and translating its legends and histories. This work was later to bear fruit in a number of publications: Eskimo poems from Canada and Greenland; The Things That Were Said of Them: Shaman Stories and Oral Histories of the Tikigaq People (University of California Press, 1992); Ancient Land: Sacred Whale (Bloomsbury, 1993; Harvill, 2000). He has also written on Buddhism. Shearsman Books have previously published two collections of Tom Lowenstein's poetry, Ancestors and Species, a volume of New & Selected Ethnographic poems (2005), and Conversations with Murasaki.(2009).

About this edition

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 184861229X
• ISBN 13: 9781848612297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244