Books published by Cool Grove Publishing INC NY

We live on a rapidly urbanizing planet, ever more enmeshed in technological artifacts, electronic communication devices and disembodied "virtual" worlds, far more separated from the natural world than any previous generations of humans. And yet, if we think about it, nearly all of us will realize that even we denizens of the 21st Century have quite a lot of contact with non-human animals, both domesticated and wild, over the course of our lives, and that some of these experiences, especially those that occur when we''re young, can be highly significant, even formative. This collection of anecdotes is about one person''s remembrances of his most significant encounters with animals over the decades, recounted in the context of his personal evolution. It also captures a lot of the colorful flavor of some of the larger cultural transformations of the last half century.

THE BOOK L, LLL''s second full length poetry book fr. Cool Grove consists of journal entries, poems & l essay - for the most part written on Isla Margarita, VE. while on retreat w. NN Rimpoche. Recalling predecessors Joanne Kyger & Philip Whalen (West Coast, USA) it develops themes of impermanence, romance & the dangers of elitism in (so calle) 3rd. world as its author inwardly explores the relation between ''community''( skt -sanga ) & the private communion which is thepoet┬┤s domain. The title is taken fr. the ground breaking work of Dutch Dadaist, Bert Schierbeck (HET BOEK IK) whose Zen Gardens, published in Amsterdam (& translated into English by Charles McGeehan) in the 1960┬┤s was a semnal introduction of Buddhist thought & practice to the Avant Guard. The Book L, 2005 selections of which are available on line at Otoliths & Melancholia┬┤s Tremulous Dreadlocks (see http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2006/07/louise-landes-levi-nine-sections-from.html & http://mtdmagazine.tripod.com/louiselandeslevi.htm)is followed, in this generous offering of the poet''s work by excerpts fr. HOTEL GAIA a collection of retreat & other poems, written primarily in Toscana, IT.(1985-1995) & dedicated to poet visive Franco Beltrametti ( translator of Han Shan┬┤s COLD MOUNTAIN into Italian - ) & A Spiritual Autobiography, the author''s short autobiographical essay ( W. Palm Beach - NYC 2001). The entire volume will follow in Cool Grove┬┤s tradition of illustrated text, see LLL┬┤s previous GURU PUNK, Cool Grove Pr., 1999 & Sweet On My Lips, The Love Poems of Mira Bai, translated fr. the Medieval Hindi, 1997. Cover Art Barbara Mohr, collage & LLL, fr. postcard series, Isla M., 2006