The Book L

THE BOOK L, LLL's second full length poetry book fr. Cool Grove  consists of journal entries, poems & l essay - for the most part written on  Isla Margarita, VE. while on retreat w. NN Rimpoche. Recalling predecessors  Joanne Kyger & Philip Whalen (West Coast, USA) it develops themes of impermanence, romance &  the dangers of elitism in (so calle) 3rd. world as its author inwardly explores the relation between 'community'( skt -sanga ) & the  private communion which is thepoet´s  domain.   The title is taken fr. the ground breaking work of Dutch Dadaist, Bert Schierbeck (HET BOEK IK) whose Zen Gardens, published in Amsterdam (&  translated into English by Charles McGeehan) in the 1960´s was a semnal introduction of Buddhist thought & practice to the Avant Guard.    The Book L, 2005 selections of which are available on line at  Otoliths & Melancholia´s Tremulous Dreadlocks (see  http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2006/07/louise-landes-levi-nine-sections-from.html &  http://mtdmagazine.tripod.com/louiselandeslevi.htm)is followed, in this  generous offering of the poet's work by excerpts fr. HOTEL GAIA  a collection of retreat & other poems, written primarily in Toscana,  IT.(1985-1995) & dedicated to poet visive Franco Beltrametti (  translator of Han Shan´s COLD MOUNTAIN  into Italian -  ) & A Spiritual Autobiography, the author's short autobiographical essay  (  W. Palm  Beach - NYC 2001).    The entire volume will follow in Cool Grove´s tradition of illustrated  text, see LLL´s previous GURU PUNK, Cool Grove Pr., 1999 & Sweet On My  Lips, The Love Poems of Mira Bai, translated fr. the Medieval Hindi, 1997.   Cover Art Barbara Mohr, collage & LLL, fr. postcard               series, Isla M., 2006