Gulf of Maine Books (134 Maine St., Brunswick) will host poet James Lenfesty, reading from his new book \u201cTime Remaining \u2013 body odes, praise songs, oddities, amazements\u201d just published by Milkweed Editions, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18. This free event is open to the public.<\/p>\n
Lenfesty is the author of multiple books and essays, including the nonfiction title \u201cSeeking the Cave \u2013 a Pilgrimage to Cold Mountain,\u201d which recounts his journey to China in search of the spirit of T\u2019Ang Dynasty poet Han Shan. Another of his titles is \u201cA Cartload of Scrolls,\u201d a collection of 100 poems written in the manner of Han Shan. He is also co-editor of \u201cRobert Bly in This World,\u201d \u201cIf Bees Are Few \u2013 a Hive of Bee Poems\u201d and \u201cThe Uncommon Speech of Paradise \u2013 Poems on the Art of Poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n
The poet Wang Ping says of \u201cTime Remaining\u201d: \u201cWhat a marvelous collection of joy, generosity and wisdom! Lenfesty devoted his life to freeing poetry fossilized by daily grimes, to letting language sing and dance again so we can have a glimpse of beauty and love. He succeeded greatly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here is a poem from the new book:<\/p>\n
\u201cTour of Kindness\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a dream, of course,
a tour bus coming from somewhere
to where we were, you and me, waiting,
expectant for the band, or troupe, coming from
a great distance, our anticipation, what it might be,
what it could mean, what was hoped for,
the need to name it.<\/p>\n
And as I awoke in the fluttering before certainty,
beneath the troubled surface of the day,
the name came to me, all I remember:
\u201cTour of Kindness\u201d<\/p>\n
Now I am waiting, we are all waiting,
wondering when it will arrive,
and what it can mean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gulf of Maine Books (134 Maine St., Brunswick) will host poet James Lenfesty, reading from his new book…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-81111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}