{"product_id":"the-book-l-paperback","title":"The Book L - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouise Landes Levi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLouise Landes-Levi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE BOOK L, LLL's second full length poetry book fr. Cool Grove consists of journal entries, poems \u0026amp; l essay - for the most part written on Isla Margarita, VE. while on retreat w. NN Rimpoche. Recalling predecessors Joanne Kyger \u0026amp; Philip Whalen (West Coast, USA) it develops themes of impermanence, romance \u0026amp; the dangers of elitism in (so calle) 3rd. world as its author inwardly explores the relation between 'community'( skt -sanga ) \u0026amp; the private communion which is thepoet s domain. The title is taken fr. the ground breaking work of Dutch Dadaist, Bert Schierbeck (HET BOEK IK) whose Zen Gardens, published in Amsterdam (\u0026amp; translated into English by Charles McGeehan) in the 1960 s was a semnal introduction of Buddhist thought \u0026amp; practice to the Avant Guard. The Book L, 2005 selections of which are available on line at Otoliths \u0026amp; Melancholia s Tremulous Dreadlocks (see http: \/\/the-otolith.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/louise-landes-levi-nine-sections-from.html \u0026amp; http: \/\/mtdmagazine.tripod.com\/louiselandeslevi.htm)is followed, in this generous offering of the poet's work by excerpts fr. HOTEL GAIA a collection of retreat \u0026amp; other poems, written primarily in Toscana, IT.(1985-1995) \u0026amp; dedicated to poet visive Franco Beltrametti ( translator of Han Shan s COLD MOUNTAIN into Italian - ) \u0026amp; A Spiritual Autobiography, the author's short autobiographical essay ( W. Palm Beach - NYC 2001). The entire volume will follow in Cool Grove s tradition of illustrated text, see LLL s previous GURU PUNK, Cool Grove Pr., 1999 \u0026amp; Sweet On My Lips, The Love Poems of Mira Bai, translated fr. the Medieval Hindi, 1997. Cover Art Barbara Mohr, collage \u0026amp; LLL, fr. postcard series, Isla M., 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 7.99 x 5.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 19, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47540440629469,"sku":"9781887276559","price":17.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/Tabvjkd5zk9781887276559.webp?v=1772583420","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-book-l-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}