Poetics of Emptiness: Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry

Poetics of Emptiness: Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry

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The Poetics of Emptiness uncovers an important untold history by tracing the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within twentiethcentury American poetry and poetics.This conceptual migration is detailed in two sections. The first focuses on transpacific Buddhist poetics, while the second maps the less wellknown terrain of transpacific Daoist poetics. In Chapters 1 and 2, the author explores Ernest Fenollosa s The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry as an expression of Fenollosa s distinctly Buddhist poetics informed by a twodecadelong encounter with a culturally hybrid form of Buddhism known as Shin Bukkyo ( New Buddhism ). Chapter 2 explores the classical Chinese poetics that undergirds the lost half of Fenellosa s essay. Chapter 3 concludes the first half of the book with an exploration of the didactic and soteriological function of emptiness in Gary Snyder s influential poetry and poetics.The second half begins with a critical exploration of the threedecadeslong career of the poet/translator/critic Wailim Yip, whose transpacific Daoist poetics has been an important fixture in American poetic late modernism and has begun to gain wider notoriety in China. The last chapter engages the intertextual weave of poststructural thought and Daoist and shamanistic discourses in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha s important body of heterocultural productions.By formulating interpretive frames as hybrid as the texts being read, this book makes available one of the most important yet still largely unknown stories of American poetry and poetics.

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