| The Faces of Guan Yin Contributor(s): Maloney, Dennis (Author), Oda, Mayumi |
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ISBN: 1610191188 ISBN-13: 9781610191180 Publisher: Folded Word OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2019 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious |
| Physical Information: 0.17" H x 5" W x 7" (0.16 lbs) 70 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of 29 poems explore the various roles of Guan Yin, the embodiment of compassion and wisdom in Buddhism, in both historic and modern contexts. Jane Hirshfield says, "Dennis Maloney's poem-glimpses of the fascinating Buddhist figure of Guan Yin draw richly on an almost infinite set of teaching stories and folk tales. Maloney's poems offer a many-sided, personal, and idiosyncratic introduction to this shape-shifting, gendershifting embodiment of freed thought, feeling, and action. These poems hold a much-needed, supple, inventive reminder of the central teaching of all Buddhism, as held by Guan Yin: that the key to ending suffering is an untethered, unstinting, unlimiting, and utterly unconventional compassion." |
Contributor Bio(s): Maloney, Dennis: - Dennis Maloney is a poet and translator. A number of volumes of his own poetry have been published, including The Map Is Not the Territory: Poems & Translations and Just Enough. His book Listening to Tao Yuan Ming was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2015 and a bilingual German/English volume, Empty Cup, was published in Germany in 2017. The Things I Notice Now was published in 2018 by MadHat Press. In 2019, a chapbook, Windows, with translations in several languages, will appear in Germany from Hochroth Verlag. His works of translation include: The Stones of Chile by Pablo Neruda, The Landscape of Castile by Antonio Machado, Between the Floating Mist: Poems of Ryokan, and The Poet and the Sea by Juan Ramon Jimenez. He is also the editor and publisher of the widely respected White Pine Press in Buffalo, New York, and divides his time between Buffalo, New York, and Big Sur, California. |