Extreme Directions
The 54 Moves of Tai Chi Sword
Published on 1. May 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-890650-11-7 (ISBN)
Description
Evolved from the poet's observation of the daily practice of Tai Chi Sword, these poems evoke the fluidity of martial art practice, the motion of Chinese brushstroke painting, as well as the shifting physical and metaphysical arena that is human relationship. Each poem title is one of the 54 sword movements of Tai Chi, which literally means the outer-most limits, great polarities, and Jones's poems articulate the polarities and synergies of living in a language that is at once intimate and expansive.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Richmond, CA
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
100 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-890650-11-7 (9781890650117)
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ALICE JONES's books, The Knot, which won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and Isthmus, recipient of the Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award, are both published by Alice James Books. Anatomy was published by Bullnettle Press. She has been awarded The Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America and fellowships by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is co-editor of Apogee Press.