Critical Commentary
“Andrew Schelling is the latest incarnation in an American poetic lineage that began with the Transcendentalists and moved west with Rexroth and Snyder: the unlikely and fortuitous conjunction of wilderness expertise, the observational precision of a natural historian, homegrown radical politics, and an immersion in Asian philosophy and writing.”
—Eliot Weinberger
“What a wonderful difference it makes when real poets translate poetry! Schelling’s renderings read like those of an old, wise Zen vagabond.”
—Jan Willis
“He inhabits myth-time, big-mind held by the curving of human sounds... A poet of ancient texts and teachings, Schelling tracks the history of language and reads the world. His poems are alive and enact magic.”
—Hoa Nguyen
“Andrew Schelling unflinchingly tracks the effects of ecological and cultural loss across mythic landscapes... With the vision of a poet and the sharp clarity of an ecologist... he reveals a roadmap to sustainability—of the human spirit and wildness.”
—Cristina Eisenberg
“Wonderful forays into the past, present, & future of the world’s continents. One travels along with this poet’s skilled eye & conscientious mind.”
—Joanne Kyger
“An ear tuned to the music of time.”
—Anselm Hollo
