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16%OFFMaitreyabandhu - The Crumb Road - 9781852249748 - V9781852249748
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The Crumb Road

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Description for The Crumb Road Paperback. First book-length collection by a well-known figure in Britain's Buddhist community includes poems of spiritual transcendence as well as meditations on love, childhood, memory and sexuality. Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 6. Weight in Grams: 136.
Maitreyabandhu's thematically varied debut collection includes poems of spiritual transcendence as well as meditations on love, memory and sexuality. Sometimes comic, often elegiac, the poems convey the pleasures and terrors of childhood as well as the mystical world of fable. Truthful, tender, and written with a kind of wonderment, the collection culminates in 'Stephen', an extended sequence of poems exploring a clandestine, and finally tragic, relationship between two boys. For Maitreyabandhu - a Buddhist teacher and member of the Triratna Buddhist Order for over twenty years - The Crumb Road is an image for the unreliability of memory, and for ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249748
SKU
V9781852249748
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About Maitreyabandhu
Maitreyabandhu was born Ian Johnson in 1961, in Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire. His parents ran a coach firm on the High Street. Initially trained as a nurse at the Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry, he went on to study fine art at Goldsmiths College, London, alongside Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst. He started attending classes at the London Buddhist Centre (LBC) in 1986, ... Read more

Reviews for The Crumb Road
'Maitreyabandhu's work beautifully, and seriously, contains the possibilities of what other traditions might call insight' - Fiona Sampson, Poetry Review. 'Maitreyabandhu's poetry opens vistas. Reading his work is an unusual pleasure. He is a poet of journeys great and small - and the reader is privileged to be his companion' - Carol Rumens.

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