Ainu Dreams (Barrytown)

By George Quasha and Chic Hasegawa

Book Overview

In Ainu Dreams, poet George Quasha and buun, a Japanese artist living in America, collaborate in poetically manifesting the artist's richly articulated dream-life. These eighty-odd poems embody an ever-opening cosmos of curious image, surprising narrative, and enigmatic teaching in a language no one could have dreamed up alone. Structurally intriguing poems reveal the innards of the dreams themselves, yet always speak directly and readably, sometimes addressed to a second person (the poet? the reader?). The poems and even reading itself seem to be dreaming. Poet and dreamer both live in New York's Hudson Valley.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581770537
• ISBN13: 9781581770537
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Cerebrally stimulating and very esoteric

In Ainu Dreams, poet George Quasha and buun, a Japanese artist living in America, collaborate in poetically manifesting the artist's richly articulated dream-life. These eighty-odd poems embody an ever-opening cosmos of curious image, surprising narrative and enigmatic teaching in a language no one could have dreamed up alone. It is a remarkable collaboration which serves to give sustenance and distinction to what is dreamt what is real and what can be. Cerebrally stimulating and very esoteric this is one of the best books of the year!Leslie BlanchardEditor A Writer's Choice Literary Journal ISSN: 1521-2319