These essays are reports from an increasingly important crossroads where art and ecology meet. Andrew Schelling belongs, in the words of Patrick Pritchett, "to a small group of poets who are actively engaged with the rhythms and pulses of the natural world." This book collects ten years of essays, many of which investigate the "nature literacy" of American and Asian poetry traditions.
Cultural Writing, Literary Criticism.WILD FORM & SAVAGE GRAMMAR collects ten years of essays from an increasingly important crossroads where art and ecology meet. Topics include recollections of Allen Ginsberg and Joanne Kyger, pilgrimage to Buddhist India, and the possible use of hallucinogens among Paleolithic artists. These writings weave together an underlying commitment to ecology studies, Buddhist teachings, and contemporary poetry. "Andrew Schelling is the latest incarnation in an American poetic lineage that began with the Transcendentalists and moved west with Rexroth and Snyder: the unlikely and fortuitous conjunction of wilderness and expertise, the observational precision of a natural historian.in these essays, poems, and translations, ancient wisdom is talking about what's happening right now" - Eliot Weinberger.
