Poetry
Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book (2009)
In the fall of 2008, poet Christopher Merrill hatched a plan: invite six other poets to join him in four days of writing in Iowa City. The poets would write for 30 minutes, creating a poem of 15 lines, and then read it aloud to the group. Then, each poet would take one line from another poet, and create another poem using that line. Those 80 poems are collected in this book, penned by authors who represent some of the best and brightest the world of poetry has to offer.
Brilliant Water (2001)
Brilliant Water is written with love, speed and passion. It shines. Makes you fly.
--Tomaz Salamun
Watch Fire (1995)
Watch Fire is a remarkably original, ambitious, and unified volume of poetry.
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
Poetry in Translation
Scale and Stairs (2009)
The poems of Heeduck Ra are charged with a friction between image and idea, sound and sense. She glimpses an arc, which may light a path from the visible world to the invisible. Her work occupies the ever-shifting border region between what we know and what we do not know, a zone in which to apprehend the world anew.
Because of The Rain: An Anthology of Korean Zen Poetry (2006)
Buddhism was introduced to Korea via China in the fifth century and similar to China and Japan a long tradition of Zen poetry developed. This collection spans 1,500 years of this tradition with a selection of the key poets and teachers starting with Great Master Wonhyo the founder of Korean Zen Buddhism.
Non-Fiction
Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain (2005)
"A gem that shows off Merrill-the-poet's gorgeous writing, and Merrill-the-reporter's sharp eyeand introduces a new Merrill, the pilgrim."
--The Spectator
Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars (2001)
[T]his book might very well become a modern classic about what once again seems a painful and incomprehensible corner of Europe.
--Publishers Weekly
