The Many Uses of Mint

Each reading of your palm a different road

verging from soil and forking into possibilities

in a wild and foreign ocean

no vaster than the line it makes with the sky

In The Many Uses of Mint Ravi Shankar resuscitates old poetic traditions while breathing new forms into life; he translates the ancients and collaborates with living artists and writers; and he peers through spirit at the secrets of the luminous universe. His work, over time, proves that by partaking of formalism, philosophical inquiry, musicality and play, language’s wet clay can be shaped into artifacts of exceeding beauty and lasting resonance.