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The Chinese Poet Awakens
looks at the life in East Tennessee through eyes of
Eastern wisdom. Grounded in the regional, these poems
have rooted deep, all the way to China. They wake us to a
homeplace that is much bigger than we thought. ---George Ella Lyon He speaks with a glitter in his eye of friendship and community, legacy and loyalty. In these poems there are implicit salutes to Han Shan and St. Francis, and the long flowing beard of Walt Whitman; but the humor and humility, the romance and the elegy, the delight in flowers and place and seasons, are all Marion's own. The poems leave us with a sense of the fresh and the timeless. ---Robert Morgan |
"The Chinese
Poet is a different sort of entity: he embodies not a
point of view but a certain mood of acceptance, of
willing acquiescence, of quietude and solitary
thoughtfulness. . . . The Chinese Poet Awakens
is a subtle book but no less forceful because of that.
One puts it down with a sigh of regret and takes it up
again with a smile of acceptance."
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From
the book --- The Chinese Poet Visits the Hermit's Cave with the Hope of Finding His Old Friend I have come the long way around, |
| The Chinese Poet Awakens by Jeff Daniel Marion, Wind Publications 1999, 56 pages, $12.50 softcover, $35.00 limited edition hardcover. (illustrations by Elizabeth Ellison) |
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