Under the Sign of the I Ching: Essays on Richard Berengarten's 'Changing'

In this book, eighteen authors from a dozen countries interpret Richard Berengarten's 'Changing' (2016), a large-scale poetic mosaic written in honour of the I Ching, the first of the Confucian classics of ancient China. 'Changing' is a work hewn out of the accrual of presence and a sagacious response to our anxious age. -MIKE BARRETT // Isn't this book's ultimate aim to contribute to a change in how we think ourselves and our world? -PAUL SCOTT DERRICK // 'Changing' blazes a new path for cross-cultural dialogue between Eastern and Western poetry and poetics. -MING DONG GU // The tone is rich, mature, and generous, but also personal and personable. -ELEANOR GOODMAN // In Berengarten's words, we must plant our feet deeply and firmly in "this here now." -TZE-KI HON // A major contribution to modern English poetry -JEREMY HOOKER // An ongoing revolution occurring in the depth of one's heart in the reality of the present -SOPHIA KATZ // Every poem a microcosm -LUCAS KLEIN // A life-path book -HANK LAZER // A sustained outpouring of captured and contemplated moments. -OWEN LOWERY// A visionary poem and an ars poetica -RODERICK MAIN // Commonplace light becomes transformative, radiant, miraculous. -PASCHALIS NIKOLAOU // 'The Book of Changes' continuously inspires fresh insights. Berengarten continues this great tradition. -GEOFFREY REDMOND // Patterned on the combined constancy and delicate fragility of the human heart. -HEYONG SHEN // Richard Berengarten is the latest in a long line of distinguished writers who have looked to the I Ching for creative sustenance. -RICHARD J. SMITH // It makes sense to read the Yijing-inspired poetry of 'Changing' in the light of the Jewish prophetical tradition -RICO SNELLER // Steeped in the Chinese classic's wider, deeper and higher spheres of influence. -TAN CHEE LAY // A sound boat in which to cross the Great River called Change. -ALAN TRIST AND BOB DEVINE

About the Author :
Paschalis Nikolaou is Associate Professor in Literary Translation at the Ionian University, Greece. He is author of the monograph 'The Return of Pytheas: Scenes from British and Greek Poetry in Dialogue' (2017) and of essays published in, among others: 'Translation and Creativity: Perspectives on Creative Writing and Translation Studies' (2006); 'Translating and Interpreting Conflict' (2007); and 'Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations' (2020). He has edited '12 Greek Poems After Cavafy' (2015) and 'Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature: Creativity, Translations and Critical Perspectives' (2020), guest edited 'Synthesis 12' ('Recomposed: Anglophone Presences of Classical Literature' (2019), and co-edited 'Translating Selves: Experience and Identity Between Languages and Literatures' (2008) and 'Richard Berengarten: A Portrait in Inter-Views' (2017). He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar for 2021 at the Department of Classics of The Ohio State University. His study, 'Creative Classical Translation' is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2023. Richard J. Smith is currently George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities emeritus, a Baker Institute Scholar, and a Research Professor at the Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin, and a member of several professional advisory boards. A specialist in modern Chinese history and traditional Chinese culture, Smith also has strong interests in transnational, global and comparative studies. He has published nine single-authored books, the most recent of which is 'The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture' (2015). He has also co-edited or co-authored eight volumes, the most recent of which are 'Reexamining the Sinosphere: Cultural Transmissions and Transformations in East Asia' (2020) and 'Rethinking the Sinosphere: Poetics, Aesthetics, and Identity Formation' (2020).