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New & Selected Poetry Talisman House Publishers, 2002 Writings gathered from six earlier books with previously unpublished poetry.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.