Published 2023. Paperback, 370pp, 9 x 6ins, £19.95 / $30
ISBN 9781848618497 [Download a PDF of the Introduction to this book here.]
Changing
is a work that’s hewn out of the accrual of presence and a sagacious response to our anxious age. —Mike Barrett | Isn’t this book’s ultimate aim to contribute to a change in how we think ourselves and our world? —Paul Scott Derrick | Changing
blazes a new path for cross-cultural dialogue between Eastern and Western poetry and poetics. —Ming Dong Gu | The tone is rich, mature, and generous, but also personal and personable. —Eleanor Goodman | In Berengarten’s words, we must plant our feet deeply and firmly in “this here now.” —Tze-ki Hon | A major contribution to modern English poetry —Jeremy Hooker | An ongoing revolution occurring in the depth of one’s heart in the reality of the present —Sophia Katz | Every poem a microcosm —Lucas Klein | A life-path book — Hank Lazer | A sustained outpouring of captured and contemplated moments. —Owen Lowery | A visionary poem and an ars poetica
—Roderick Main | Commonplace light becomes transformative, radiant, miraculous. —Paschalis Nikolaou | The Book of Changes
continuously inspires fresh insights. Berengarten continues this great tradition. —Geoffrey Redmond | Patterned on the combined constancy and delicate fragility of the human heart. —Heyong Shen | Richard Berengarten is the latest in a long line of distinguished writers who have looked to the I Ching
for creative inspiration — Richard J. Smith | It makes sense to read the Yijing
-inspired poetry of Changing
in the light of the Jewish prophetical tradition —Rico Sneller | Steeped in the Chinese classic’s wider, deeper and higher spheres of influence. — Tan Chee Lay | A sound boat in which to cross the Great River called Change. —Alan Trist and Bob Devine | |
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