Ebook: Poetics of Emptiness: Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry

Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Poetics of Emptiness -- Prologue: Transformations of a Transpacific Imaginary -- Introduction: The Poetics of Emptiness, or a Cult of Nothingness -- PART ONE Buddhist Imaginaries -- 1 / Emptiness in Flux: The Buddhist Poetics of Ernest Fenollosa�s “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry� -- 2 / Patterned Harmony: Buddhism, Sound, and Ernest Fenollosa�s Poetics of Correlative Cosmology -- 3 / Teaching the Law: Gary Snyder�s Poetics of Emptiness -- PART TWO Daoist Imaginaries