Description

Empty Bowl, paperback

Publication Date: December 3, 2024

Publisher Marketing: Andrew Schelling’s new poetry collection,Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers,continues to explore lands of the American West and the traces of old language. Arranged in four sections, it offers poems “found” among the canyons and buttes of the Southwest, a paean to the Sanskrit dictionary, odes and elegies to deceased poets, and a series of love songs “to the tune of a ballad.” Composed for an era in which many artists have abandoned the love song, the poems here are shaped by glacier-fed rivers and traditions of romance “old as ice.