Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. Poetics. Environmental Studies. WILD FORM & SAVAGE GRAMMAR collects ten years of essays from an increasingly important crossroads where art and ecology meet. Topics include recollections of Allen Ginsberg and Joanne Kyger, pilgrimage to Buddhist India, and the possible use of hallucinogens among Paleolithic artists. These writings weave together an underlying commitment to ecology studies, Buddhist teachings, and contemporary poetry. "Andrew Schelling is the latest incarnation in an American poetic lineage that began with the Transcendentalists and moved west with Rexroth and Snyder: the unlikely and fortuitous conjunction of wilderness and expertise, the observational precision of a natural historian.in these essays, poems, and translations, ancient wisdom is talking about what's happening right now"—Eliot Weinberger.

Author City: BOULDER, CO USA

Andrew Schelling lives in the Southern Rocky Mountains, dividing his time between Boulder, Colorado, and a former mining camp in the Indian Peaks. He has worked on land use in the American West, ecology, and wolf reintroduction. Recent books include FROM THE ARAPAHO SONGBOOK (poetry; La Alameda Press, 2011), OLD TALE ROAD (poetry; Empty Bowl Press, 2008) and WILD FORM, SAVAGE GRAMMAR: POETRY, ECOLOGY, ASIA (essays; La Alameda Press, 2003). For thirty years he has studied Sanskrit and Indian raga, and published seven books of translation from India's early poets, most recently a revised edition of DROPPING THE BOW: POEMS OF ANCIENT INDIA (White Pine Press, 2008). He teaches at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School and at Deer Park Institute in India's bird-rich Himalayan foothills.