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In the Buddha Factory - Softcover

Soldofsky, Alan

 
9781612480886: In the Buddha Factory
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1612480888 ISBN 13: 9781612480886
Verlag: Truman State University Press, 2013

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Captivating and truthful, In the Buddha Factory is rich in detail, honest in tragedy, and poignant in observation. Through a mastery of style and language placed against the backdrop of Silicon Valley, Soldofsky explores the tension of opposites of place and no place, rich and poor, and finite and the limitless. These poems capture the intricacies of family, aging, and identity, and render them in words both insightful and lyrical.

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Alan Soldofsky has published three poetry chapbooks: Kenora Station, Staying Home, and Holding Adam/My Father's Books. He directs the Creative Writing Program at San Jose State University where he is professor of English and comparative literature. In the Buddha Factory was a finalist for the 2012 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.

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Formally elegant, wonderfully attentive to tone, In the Buddha Factory mixes reverence, good humor, grievous tragedy, and affirmation in enlightening ways. The result is a collection that honors each detail; every poem here approaches its subject with wonder and respect.—Sandra McPherson Alan Soldofsky is a poet with a metaphysical bent and a strong sense of place, a traveler who keeps coming home to California, a spiritual wanderer keenly alert to the incongruities of modern life—in a Buddha factory in China, for example—and the hyper-reality of the 21st century. His carefully constructed, long-awaited first book is a work of full maturity, high achievement.—Edward Hirsch I really, really love this book. No one has written such a thing before, from such a vast, infinity library of sources and human experience. At the core, Soldofsky mixes a new metaphysics—loving, alarming, dissolving—all the poetry you never imagined in and out of language. Finally, a twenty-first century collection.—Juan Felipe Herrera This first collection from Alan Soldofsky reads like a fourth or fifth—dense with memorable imagery, the grit of experience, and a careful attention to language that together make it resonate with a captivating yogic hum.... These are poems of the here-and-now—love songs to the lived, the ending, the always-partial—that still feel eternal. In this machine-less factory with space for thoughtful wandering, there are endless Buddhas.—Dorianne Laux In the Buddha Factory tells us in poem after poem that true poetry is present, vividly, vitally, and genuinely, in Soldofsky's work. Often funny, entirely original, and always movingly humane, this book is a gift.—Daniel Tobin

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Verlag
Truman State University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1612480888
ISBN 13 
9781612480886
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
94
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