After an exhausting year of high school teaching, summer has arrived and I am finally writing. Tim Atkin’s new big Buddhist book of everything, NOTHING CONCLUSIVE HAS YET TAKEN PLACE IN THE WORLD THE ULTIMATE WORD OF THE WORLD AND ABOUT THE WORLD HAS NOT YET BEEN SPOKEN THE WORLD IS OPEN AND FREE EVERYTHING IS STILL IN THE FUTURE AND WILL ALWAYS BE, is opening me to expansive mind states. It is excellent journeys!

There is the Black Sea and the wine dark sea. There is writing under the bed and on the bed. There is Barcelona and London and Turkey and San Francisco. There are elegies to Sean Bonney and Peter Gizzi. There are Buddhist poets and Beat Poets and NY School Poets and Chinese and Russian poets like Tu Fu & Marina Tsvetaeva. Daughters. Buddhism and attachments. Erotics and anarchy. Crossings & radical compassionate mindfulness. Art as experience rather than art as about things. It is a book about the book and not the book. It is book that asks why make anything.

I would take this book to my cave. I would take this book to park benches and bus commutes and long train journeys. I was moved by this book more than any other book for many long years. It spells the end of my dry years. Available soon from Crater Press.