The Poetics of Emptiness uncovers an important untold history by
tracing the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a
single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is
transformed within twentieth-century American poetry and poetics.
This conceptual migration is detailed in two sections. The first
focuses on "transpacific Buddhist poetics," while the second maps
the less well-known terrain of "transpacific Daoist poetics." In
Chapters 1 and 2, the author explores Ernest Fenollosa's "The
Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry" as an expression
of Fenollosa's distinctly Buddhist poetics informed by a
two-decade-long encounter with a culturally hybrid form of Buddhism
known as Shin Bukkyo ("New Buddhism"). Chapter 2 explores the
classical Chinese poetics that undergirds the lost half of
Fenellosa's essay. Chapter 3 concludes the first half of the book
with an exploration of the didactic and soteriological function of
"emptiness" in Gary Snyder's influential poetry and poetics. The
second half begins with a critical exploration of the
three-decades-long career of the poet/translator/critic Wai-lim
Yip, whose "transpacific Daoist poetics" has been an important
fixture in American poetic late modernism and has begun to gain
wider notoriety in China. The last chapter engages the intertextual
weave of poststructural thought and Daoist and shamanistic
discourses in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's important body of
heterocultural productions. By formulating interpretive frames as
hybrid as the texts being read, this book makes available one of
the most important yet still largely unknown stories of American
poetry and poetics.
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