Old Tale Road, Andrew Schelling's first full collection of poetry in six years, is a visionary work of crisply detailed language and wide-ranging content. It balances the ecological, mythic, and pers
"Schelling's biography of Jaime de Angulo—'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo,' among other things—presents a fascinating, full-bodied portrait of a man and an era, as well as delving
California, with its scores of native languages, contains a wealth of old time stories?a bedrock literature of North America. Jaime de Angulo’s linguistic and ethnographic work, his writings, as well
"For thousands of years, the Indian subcontinent has proved a fertile ground for the world's most captivating erotic love poetry, and the genius of its devotional writing harnesses great energy and my
Poetry. Following the trail he set out on in FROM THE ARAPAHO SONGBOOK, the poems in Andrew Schelling's A POSSIBLE BAG takes us further into the recesses of the Southern Rocky Mountain bioregion, trac
"For thousands of years, the Indian subcontinent has proved a fertile ground for the world's most captivating erotic love poetry, and the genius of its devotional writing harnesses great energy and my
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Poetry. In THE REAL PEOPLE OF WIND AND RAIN—a remarkably wide- ranging set of essays—Andrew Schelling takes on poetry, Buddhism, baseball, ecology, and the art of translat
“Refined, intense, wise, stirring, immediate, subtle, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versio
Of the world’s ancient poetry, that of classical India was the most vividly erotic—uninhibited, tender, sad, and joyous by turns. The poems sound as if they might have been written yesterday, although
An award-winning translator finds surprisingly modern themes in a selection of erotic and religious stanzas from one of classical India's most celebrated poets.Although few facts are known about his l
The poets of classical India regarded love as the first and deepest of passions. Translator and scholar Andrew Schelling perfectly encapsulates the history and passion of eighth-century India in this
Bright as an Autumn Moon presents Sanskrit verses composed from the fourth to the twelfth centuries. Translated into contemporary English by American poet Andrew Schelling, they illuminate the ardent
