Andrew Schelling Title:
Associate Professor Writing & Poetics
Education:
BA, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1974
Year Started Teaching at Naropa:
1990 Full Time
Publications
Dropping the Bow: Poems from Ancient India
Broken Moon Press, 1991
Received the Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Prize in Translation in 1992. Short lyric poems from Sanskrit & related vernaculars.
Old Growth: Selected Poems & Notebooks 1986–1994
Rodent Press, 1995
The India Book: Essays & Translations from Indian Asia
O Books 1996
The Road to Ocosingo
Smoke Proof Press, 1998
Travel account of a journey in Chiapas State, Mexico in 1994. Inspired by travel journals of Matsuo Basho, this is in loose haibun form, a mix of verse & prose.
The Cane Groves of Narmada River: Erotic Poems of Old India
City Lights, 1998
100 poems translated from Sanskrit and an early vernacular tradition. "A brilliant selection of refined, provocative, shivery-lovely poems… It's the best gathering of Indian short poems yet." —Gary Snyder
Tea Shack Interior: New & Selected Poetry
Talisman House Publishers, 2002
Writings gathered from six earlier books with previously unpublished poetry.
"Schelling belongs to a small group of poets who are actively engaged with the rhythms and pulses of the natural world." —Patrick Pritchett
Wild Form Savage Grammar: Poetry, Ecology, Asia
La Alameda Press, 2003
Collects ten years of essays, many of which investigate the "nature literacy" of American and Asian poetry traditions. Other topics include wolf reintroduction in the Rocky Mountains, pilgrimage to Buddhist India, and the possible use of hallucinogens among Paleolithic artists.
