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Tea Ceremonies for Winter

Tea Ceremonies for Winter

Pérez, Rolando

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 1887276890
ISBN13: 9781887276894
Publisher: Cool Grove Publishing Inc NY
Published: Dec 10 2018
Pages: 65
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English

The Japanese tea ceremony is an attempt to impart meaning to that which would oth- erwise go unnoticed. After all, what is so different about serving, pouring, drinking tea, than the brushing of one's teeth? No-thing. What gives significance to the serving of the tea is the ceremony itself--that is, the form. For in the tea ceremony, the form is the content. Now, in comparison to the Western poem, full of meaning, allusions, mythologies, history, etc. a haiku may just describe a scene in nature: the landscape: a river, a tree, a bird, and not much else. But that is so very much already, Rolando Pérez seems to suggest in Tea Ceremonies for Winter. So very much. The objects of nature pre- sented in a Basho haiku, for instance, simply are--they exist for themselves, says Pérez. If they are 'sublime, ' they are not so for us, and this is what we must all learn, if we are to save the Earth from complete destruction--the result of our Western greed and rampant narcissism. In this light, Tea Ceremonies for Winter is an invitation--through lan- guage--to let non-human objects be without submitting them to the control, manipu- lation, and exploitation of our Imperial I. Pérez's Tea Ceremonies for Winter is a book that says: we are all in this together--but that we also includes mountains, rivers, plastic bags, plants, rocks, tea leaves, light bulbs valves, hammers, mice, etc.. Pérez accomplishes this with simplicity and elegance of style

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