pt. 1 - Buddhist Imaginaries. -- - 1 - Emptiness in Flux: The Buddhist Poetics of Ernest Fenollosa's "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry" -- - 2 - Patterned Harmony: Buddhism, Sound, and Ernest Fenollosa's Poetics of Correlative Cosmology -- - 3 - Teaching the Law: Gary Snyder's Poetics of Emptiness -- - pt. 2 - Daoist Imaginaries -- - 4 - Language of Emptiness: Wai-lim Yip's Daoist Project -- - 5 - Pacing the Void: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée
This book uncovers an important untold history by tracing the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within twentieth-century American poetry and poetics