Time as Distance
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Poetry. "In his latest collection, TIME AS DISTANCE, Halperin explores some of his and our various lives, traveling along a time-line from Yakima, Washington, and Tallinn, Pennsylvania, back to Tallinn, Estonia, deep into his own Russian-Jewish ancestry. Along that time-line he and we all live, still, always: for Halperin, time strands and estranges us; it streamlines and brings us together. These are poems that travel immense distances very quietly, without gimmicks, but with saving heart and irresistible grace" - Nancy Eimers.
Mark Halperin
Mark Halperin is associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Out of the Cloister: Literati Perspectives on Buddhism in Sung China, 960-1279 (Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2006).
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