The Many Uses of Mint. New and Selected Poems 1998-2018

Each reading of your palm a different roadverging from soil and forking into possibilitiesin a wild and foreign oceanno vaster than the line it makes with the skyIn The Many Uses of Mint Ravi Shankar resuscitates old poetic traditions while breathing new forms into life; he translates the ancients and collaborates with living artists and writers; and he peers through spirit at the secrets of the luminous universe. His work, over time, proves that by partaking of formalism, philosophical inquiry, musicality and play, language s wet clay can be shaped into artifacts of exceeding beauty and lasting resonance.