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Correspondence with The Immortals begins and ends in funhouse sleuthing by two readers of poetry. Along the way, we follow the lively exchange of letters between xxxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx and the spokesperson for the Eight Famous Poets of The Wine Cup, then sample ""ordinary mind"" poems from the Pavilion where thoughts wash away. The author's lifelong love of Classical Chinese literature MADE NEW in translation has led him to believe that between ourselves and The Immortals there exists a true correspondence, one that sees the past in the present, the undead in the living, and vice versa. Nothing is extraneous in this book. All of its parts are brought together seamlessly by its editor J.L. Brewer. As it is said in the ancient Zuo Zhuan, ""A good soup blends many flavors. It is not like adding water to water. Tasting it makes our minds tranquil."" Herein, lies an original stew of thought and feeling, simmering with wit, absurdity, and high-seriousness.

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Jonathan Lippitt Brewer was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is a graduate of St. John's College, Santa Fe, N.M. (B.A., Liberal Arts) and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A., Ph.D., English Literature). He has studied with the poets Charles Bell, Arnold Weinstein, John Anson, Robert Pinsky, and Peter Dale Scott. In 1971, he became a conscientious objector and fulfilled his alternate service by teaching English in northern Thailand. He later lived in India and spent time in and out of ashrams, until he entered graduate school and wrote a dissertation on Eastern meditative practice in the poetry of Yeats, Pound, and Snyder. In 1996, he went to Japan as a tourist, stayed-on as a part-time teacher at several colleges and universities in Kyoto, and eventually became a Foreign Lecturer of English & American Literature at two national universities-Nara Women's University (2004-2012) and Kyushu University (2013-2015). He currently lives in Sacramento, CA.

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