Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India - Paperback

by Andrew Schelling (Translator)

"Refined, intense, wise, stirring, immediate, subtle, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition."--Anne Waldman

Two thousand years have passed since the first of these poems were composed. A new introduction prefaces this expanded edition of Andrew Schelling's remarkable translations.

Andrew Schelling is a poet and translator from Sanskrit. He teaches at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

Author Biography

Andrew Schelling is a poet and translator from Sanskrit. He is on faculty of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, CO. His recent books include Tea Shack Interior: New and Selected Poems and Wild Form & Savage Grammar.