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Tom Lowenstein
In this richly illustrated volume full of photographs from Lowenstein’s personal archives documenting his long-standing friendships and reflecting the volume’s heady mixture of accounting, art and wine.
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On a tiny peninsula, the Inuit of Tikigaq worshipped the whales they killed, evolving an elaborate system of myths and rituals to accompany the hunt. The author began to explore…
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Tom Lowenstein’s work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising, above all, in the Inuit of Alaska) has always been interpenetrative, the poetic work deeply informed by the scholarly. This volume…
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In the 1970s Tom Lowenstein spent a lot of time in an Alaskan Inuit village, studying the history, customs and life of the inhabitants. This book records the events and…
Uji is now a suburb to the south of Kyoto and its bridge was first constructed in the 10th century. I sat by the bridge watching the water flow in…
In the voice of an 18th-century poet who the previous afternoon had written ‘Kubla Khan’, this long prose meditation takes the reader through an English pastoral landscape to the Central…
In contrast to the long, trans-cultural narratives of ‘Ancestors and Species’, Tom Lowenstein’s new poetry is pared down in this volume to the briefest of utterances. A long expensive journey…
A beautifully illustrated compendium of places, people, cultures, festivals, and beliefs, this is an homage to an often admired poetic form: the haiku. Embodying the spirit of ancient Japan, this…
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