Disappearing Ox: A Modern Version of a Classic Buddhist Tale - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556595905 ISBN 13: 9781556595905

Verlag: Copper Canyon Press, 2020

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MacArthur Fellow Lewis Hyde and painter Max Gimblett collaborate to create a modern American version of the twelfth-century Chinese “Oxherding Series.” As Lewis Hyde writes, “There are ten drawings, the first of which shows a young herder who has lost the ox he is supposed to be tending. In subsequent images he finds the ox’s tracks, sees the beast itself, tames it, and rides it home. In the seventh drawing the ox disappears...it was a metaphor for something, not to be mistaken for the thing itself.” In dialogue with Gimblett’s paintings and the Chinese text, Hyde’s revolutionary approach provides three different English-language versions to the same poem: a one-word response, a second version that adds just enough for complete sentences, and the third adds poetic embellishment. Combining Chinese text, visual art, and multiple English translations, The Disappearing Ox, is a fluid, multilayered reading experience.

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Lewis Hyde is a celebrated poet, translator, essayist, and cultural critic. Hyde has been the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Lannan Literary fellowship. Hyde is a former professor of creative writing and American literature at Kenyon College, and former director of undergraduate writing at Harvard University. In previous works like The Gift (1983), Trickster Makes This World (1998), and Common as Air (2010), Hyde explores the role of art in cultural imagination, defending the non-commerciality of artistic practice and exploring the ways ideas from the past inform the present. Hyde’s most recent book, A Primer for Forgetting (2019), investigates when forgetfulness might be more useful than memory. Hyde is a trustee of the MacDowell Colony and a founding director of the Creative Capital Foundation. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, the writer Patricia Vigderman.

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Seeing the Ox

Follow the sound and the way opens; see the place and come to the source.
At the root of each sense is a gate: perception there is not muddled.
Inside all actions the source becomes clear.
Like the salt in sea water,
like the binder in blue paint.
The eyes distinguish first and last
and see: “it” is not a separate thing.



A Glimpse of the Ox

If he would only listen to everyday sounds he would get it in a second.
As for the senses: it was the cicada that made the ear! The thing itself is
there no matter what we do. It is like the salt in water or the binder in
paint. Rightly opened, the eye sees no difference between the worthy
and the worthless.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1556595905
• ISBN 13: 9781556595905
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Gimblett Max
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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