Andrew Schelling

Andrew Schelling (born January 14, 1953 Washington D.C. is an American poet and translator.^[1]

Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Poetry 3.2 Translations 3.3 Editor 4 References 5 External links

Life

He grew up in New England. He moved west to Northern California in 1973. There he explored wilderness regions of the Coast Range and Sierra Nevadas. He studied at University of California, Santa Cruz and studied with Norman O. Brown.^[2] He studied Sanskrit and Asian literature at University of California, Berkeley. In 1990, he joined the faculty at Naropa University, where he teaches poetry, Sanskrit, and wilderness writing.^[3]

An ecologist, naturalist, and explorer of wilderness areas, he has travelled extensively in North America, Europe, India, and the Himalayas.

He lives in Boulder, Colorado.^[4]

Awards

• 1992 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets
• Two grants for translation from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.

Works

• Wild Form, Savage Grammar: Poetry, Ecology, Asia. La Alameda Press. 2003. ISBN 9781888809350. 
• Old Growth: Poems and Notebooks 1986-1994. Rodent Press. 1995. ISBN 9781887289016. 
• The India Book: Essays & Translations from Indian Asia. O Books. 1993. ISBN 1882022165. 

Poetry

• Moon Is a Piece of Tea. last generation press. 1993. 
• The Road to Ocosingo. Smokeproof Press. 1998. ISBN 9780965887731. 
• Tea Shack Interior: New & Selected Poetry. Talisman House. 2001. ISBN 9781584980278. 
• Two Elk: A High Country Notebook. Bootstrap Press. 2005. ISBN 0971193541. 
• Caribou & Others. Track & Fields. 2007. 
• Towards Arcturus. La Alameda Press. 2007. 
• Old Tale Road. Empty Bowl Press. 2008. ISBN 9781929355471. 
• From the Arapaho Songbook. La Alameda Press. 2011. ISBN 9781888809619. 

Translations

• Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India. Translator Andrew Schelling. Broken Moon Press. 1991. ISBN 9780913089187. 
• Mīrābāī (1998). For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai. Translator Andrew Schelling. Hohm Press. ISBN 9780934252843.  original 1993
• Andrew Schelling, Anne Waldman, ed (1996). Songs of the sons & daughters of Buddha. Translators Andrew Schelling, Anne Waldman. Shambhala. ISBN 9781570621727. 
• The Cane Groves of Narmada River: Erotic Poems of Old India. City Lights Publishers. January 1, 2001. ISBN 9780872863460. 
• Amaru (2004). Erotic love poems from India: a translation of the Amarushataka. Translator Andrew Schelling. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 9781590300978. http://books.google.com/?id=jrxd0bVSl4oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Andrew+Schelling. 

Editor

• Andrew Schelling, ed (2005). The Wisdom anthology of North American Buddhist poetry. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 9780861713929. http://books.google.com/?id=IP6VpCaQ9aEC&dq=Andrew+Schelling&printsec=frontcover. 
• Anne Waldman, Andrew Schelling, ed (1994). Disembodied poetics: annals of the Jack Kerouac School. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780826315175. 

References

External links

• "A Conversation with Andrew Schelling", Raintaxi, Summer 2002

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