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9781929918232

Hunting Down the Monk: Poems

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    9781929918232

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    1929918232

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-12-01
  • Publisher: Boa Editions

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Summary

Drawing from her work in comparative religion and cultural anthropology, Adrie Kusserow offers a collection of portraits of Westerners in the East and Easterners in the West struggling to relearn and relive their ideas of culture, religion, and God. These poems expose the human craving for the nourishment of a spiritual life. Celebrated poet Karen Swenson has written the Foreword. Adrie Kusserow received her Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1996 and is currently associate professor of cultural anthropology at St. Michael's College in Vermont. She continues to do cross-cultural field work on the spread of Eastern philosophies to the West.

Table of Contents

Foreword 8(5)
Karen Swenson
I. NOMADS
Hunting Down the Monk
13(2)
Picking the Streets, Kathmandu
15(2)
West Meets East Meets West, Kathmandu
17(3)
Orphanage, Missionaries of Charity
20(2)
Learning Gods
22(3)
Twenty-first Century Religio-tropic
25(2)
Crossing Borders
27(3)
When They Came in with the New Regime
30(3)
American Nomads
33(4)
The Bird Cage
37(2)
Bulimia Religiosa
39(2)
Holy Ghost People
41(3)
What Thaws Us
44(3)
Metamorphosis
47(2)
Empty
49(1)
Thirty-one, Anthropologist, No Gods Left
50(5)
II. NATURE/CULTURE
Snowflake Bentley
55(2)
Liminal
57(1)
White Tulip
58(2)
Himalayas
60(1)
A Woman at Night, Queens, N.Y.
61(2)
When I Die
63(4)
III. KINSHIP
The Fall of God the Father
67(2)
Ana Begins, Postpartum
69(5)
The Raw and the Sexed
74(2)
Daily Bread
76(1)
Rite of Passage
77(1)
Anthropology
78(2)
Ethnography of an Elderly Woman in Queens, N.Y.
80(2)
Love Poem to Jane
82(3)
Floodlight
85(2)
Wildflowers
87(2)
What I Want
89(1)
Night Poppies
90(1)
Post Script
91(1)
The Cell
92(2)
Flying Leap
94(2)
Neon Birch
96(3)
Notes 99(1)
Acknowledgments 100(2)
About the Author 102(2)
Colophon 104

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