Poetics of Emptiness: Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry

Contents

Contents List of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Prologue: Transformations of a Transpacific Imaginary 1 Introduction: The Poetics of Emptiness, or a Cult of Nothingness 9 part one Buddhist Imaginaries 1 Emptiness in Flux: The Buddhist Poetics of Ernest Fenollosa’s “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry” 33 2 Patterned Harmony: Buddhism, Sound, and Ernest Fenollosa’s Poetics of Correlative Cosmology 59 3 Teaching the Law: Gary Snyder’s Poetics of Emptiness 97 part two Daoist Imaginaries 4 Language of Emptiness: Wai-lim Yip’s Daoist Project 123 5 Pacing the Void: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée 157 Epilogue 191 Notes 199 Bibliography 235 Index 257 ...