Month: November 2013

Publication Announcement

New Publication: Buddha, Proof by Su Smallen

Scott King
ISBN 978-1-937693-34-3 $15
ISBN 978-1-937693-34-3 $15

We’re very pleased to announce this collection of poems by Su Smallen. In Buddha, Proof, Buddha befriends Barbie, shops at Target, rides roller coasters, considers a career change, and contemplates the complete perfection of toast. With this new & expanded edition, now containing twice as many poems, author Su Smallen honors the center, not-center of Buddhism with humor and gravity. Here’s one of the poems:

BUDDHA, HEALTH FOOD 
 
Buddha needs only health food and 
the barest of home furnishings, like, 
 
perhaps, a home. The Riverside 
Shakespeare would be superfluous but handy 
 
to sit on for breathing practice, for meditating on 
William calling rehearsal somewhere 
 
for another Midsummer Night’s Dream, saying, 
“Buddha, I’m sorry I can’t use you 
 
—unless, of course, you might consider the role of 
the ass,” turning away with a queenly laugh. 
 
Suffering is breath to Buddha. 
Suffering is a health food snack.

 

To purchase a copy at the Red Dragonfly Press website click here

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Publication Announcement

New Publication: The Art of Patience by Eugénio de Andrade

Scott King
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ISBN 978-1-937693-37-4 $15

We’re very pleased to announce this collection of poems by Eugénio de Andrade, one of Portugal’s most important modern poets, and the first collection to appear in the United States in over a decade. Translated and introduced by Alexis Levitin.

The Art of Patience is not a selected poems with poems chosen across numerous collection, but rather, that rarity among poetry translations, a single book in its entirety. Here’s one of the poems:

BEFORE KNOWING

Even where the fingers touch the warmth

of clay, the hand knows 

before knowing. 

It’s more alive, this knowing, the knowing

of a bird: eagle swan falcon, 

animals almost at their end, 

like the fire of these days. 

Standing witness to the lynx 

is now our obligation.

Because it is so blue. 

To purchase a copy at the Red Dragonfly Press website click here