{"product_id":"03-23-2021-eclogues-in-a-mustard-seed-garden-by-glenn-mott","title":"Mott, Glenn: Eclogues in a Mustard Seed Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003eTurtle Point Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 23, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: In couplets, verse, and prose passages, \u003ci\u003eEclogues in a Mustard Seed Garden\u003c\/i\u003e questions power, polemics, and orthodox thinking. Mott finds inspiration everywhere, from the \u003ci\u003eAdagia\u003c\/i\u003e of Erasmus, to Virgil's \u003ci\u003eBucolics\u003c\/i\u003e, to the seventeenth-century \u003ci\u003eChinese Painting Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden\u003c\/i\u003e. His \u003ci\u003eEclogues\u003c\/i\u003e considers the inheritance of authority, envisioning intellect as a kind of malady and thought as a kind of infection. Mott's paradoxes achieve a heightened perception, transcending the garden-variety truths of both East and West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Greek noun \u003ci\u003eekloge\u003c\/i\u003e was first applied to inscriptions that kept accounts and described crop harvests, the drafting of soldiers, affairs of state, natural phenomena, forms of market and social exchange. Mott recasts this classic pastoral form for a contemporary setting, making it reflect both the sinister and pleasurable aspects of social life, in both the country and the city. \u003ci\u003eEclogues in a Mustard Seed Garden\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the Western tradition of the eclogue, with classical Chinese poetry, wisdom literature, and the Zen epigram.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"By cross-pollinating the aphorism and the eclogue, Glenn Mott creates a unique voice bridging East and West, past and present. . . . Readers are sure to come away from a sojourn in this 'mustard seed garden' refreshed.\"--Elaine Equi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A book of humility rather than the falsely heroic, written by one as sensitive to the attenuations of life and the nuances of culture as any I've yet read.\" --Garrett Hongo, on \u003ci\u003eAnalects on a Chinese Screen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32978216386583,"sku":"9781885983855","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/gm.gif?v=1607211629","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/03-23-2021-eclogues-in-a-mustard-seed-garden-by-glenn-mott","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}