Bardo: Volume 1998

By Suzanne Paola

Book Overview

Suzanne Paola fuses the Tibetan bardo journey with Western epic tradition in ways that are both comic and harrowing. Bardo is the intermediate state after death when the soul wanders through the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299160149
• ISBN13: 9780299160142
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Stunning.

These poems were amazing, disturbing, evocative. Phrases and images have stayed with me, and a few times I have had to go back and read a certain poem just to touch them again. The recurrent themes of being and not-being, of what it means to be fertile and not-fertile -- BARDO is a gift, and I was fortunate enough to come across an early copy.