Dharmakaya

In Dharmakaya, Paula Meehan's fifth collection, the poems move between the timeless, unsituated spirit and its truths, and the living anguish and desire of a dying body that keenly feels its femaleness in an Ireland that is both haunted and hard-wired. "Dharmakaya," a word she borrows from The Tibetan Book of the Dead, signals the span of the collection's philosophical concerns: a dialogue between western poetics and Buddhism. Her formal concerns as a poet are enacted in gestures both received and open, drawing alike from her tradition and the disruption of that tradition.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
Published: 01/01/2002
ISBN: 9781930630055
Pages: 65
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.78w x 0.47d

Review Citations: Women's Review of Books 06/01/2003 pg. 17