In contrast to the long, trans-cultural narratives of 'Ancestors and Species', Tom Lowenstein's new poetry is pared down in this volume to the briefest of utterances.
A long expensive journey. The landscape
grown stranger. A space at the end
where there's no more to interpret.
Tom Lowenstein has taught English in London and at Northwestern University since the mid-1960s. The final volume of his trilogy based on work in north Alaska was published in 2009, followed by one last volume in 2021. He studied Sanskrit and Pali at SOAS, Cambridge and the University of Washington. His previous books of poetry include Filbustering in Samsara, Ancestors and Species, and Conversation with Murasaki. Shearsman also publish his prose fantasia, From Culbone Wood - In Xanadu.
Show moreIn contrast to the long, trans-cultural narratives of 'Ancestors and Species', Tom Lowenstein's new poetry is pared down in this volume to the briefest of utterances.
A long expensive journey. The landscape
grown stranger. A space at the end
where there's no more to interpret.
Tom Lowenstein has taught English in London and at Northwestern University since the mid-1960s. The final volume of his trilogy based on work in north Alaska was published in 2009, followed by one last volume in 2021. He studied Sanskrit and Pali at SOAS, Cambridge and the University of Washington. His previous books of poetry include Filbustering in Samsara, Ancestors and Species, and Conversation with Murasaki. Shearsman also publish his prose fantasia, From Culbone Wood - In Xanadu.
Show moreTom 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.
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