Tom Lowenstein's work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising, above all, in the Inuit of Alaska) has always been interpenetrative, the poetic work deeply informed by the scholarly. This volume selects poetry from his whole career to date, concentrating on the faultline where his ethnographic concerns meet his poetic concerns. Poems have been selected from 'Filibustering in Samsara' and 'Ancient Land: Sacred Whale', as well as from more recent uncollected work. 'Ancestors and Species' makes it clear that Tom Lowenstein is one of Britain's most remarkable poetic voices, at the same time fascinating, and impossible to categorise.
Tom Lowenstein has taught English in London and at Northwestern University since the mid-1960s. The final volume of his trilogy based on work in north Alaska was published in 2009, followed by one last volume in 2021. He studied Sanskrit and Pali at SOAS, Cambridge and the University of Washington. His previous books of poetry include Filbustering in Samsara, Ancestors and Species, and Conversation with Murasaki. Shearsman also publish his prose fantasia, From Culbone Wood - In Xanadu.
Show moreTom Lowenstein's work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising, above all, in the Inuit of Alaska) has always been interpenetrative, the poetic work deeply informed by the scholarly. This volume selects poetry from his whole career to date, concentrating on the faultline where his ethnographic concerns meet his poetic concerns. Poems have been selected from 'Filibustering in Samsara' and 'Ancient Land: Sacred Whale', as well as from more recent uncollected work. 'Ancestors and Species' makes it clear that Tom Lowenstein is one of Britain's most remarkable poetic voices, at the same time fascinating, and impossible to categorise.
Tom Lowenstein has taught English in London and at Northwestern University since the mid-1960s. The final volume of his trilogy based on work in north Alaska was published in 2009, followed by one last volume in 2021. He studied Sanskrit and Pali at SOAS, Cambridge and the University of Washington. His previous books of poetry include Filbustering in Samsara, Ancestors and Species, and Conversation with Murasaki. Shearsman also publish his prose fantasia, From Culbone Wood - In Xanadu.
Show moreTom Lowenstein was born near London in 1941. After completing his education at Cambridge University, he taught for six years in English secondary schools. he has also taught English and creative writing at Northwestern University, worke for the Alaska State Museum and spent a year, in the mid-1970s, in an Alaskan Eskimo village, recording and translating its legends and histories. This work was later to bear fruit in a number of publications: Eskimo poems from Canada and Greenland; The Things That Were Said of Them: Shaman Stories and Oral Histories of the Tikigaq People (University of California Press, 1992); Ancient Land: Sacred Whale (Bloomsbury, 1993; Harvill, 2000). He has also written on Buddhism.
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