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Glenn Mott is a poet, journalist, and editor. He is the author of Analects on a Chinese Screen, a book of poetry set against China's rise to globalization. He has been the recipient of a Davis Fellowship for Peace from Middlebury College, and was a Fulbright Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing. His press, Polymorph Editions, focuses on translations of Asian writers. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Praise for Eclogues in a Mustard Seed Garden Glenn Mott's epigrams and poems are resting places for a restless mind. This big, generous, thoughtful book is as shockingly fresh as was (and is) William Carlos Williams' Spring and All. As tone--truly many tones--becomes inseparable from thinking, so too do the many registers of humor, elegy, and satire. A wisdom book (with the necessary resistance to over-simplification), Mott, taking up stance after stance, gives us the kaleidoscopic spectrum of what it is to be alive now. This is a book to return to again and again. --Hank Lazer Jubilantly declaring 'consciousness is the aristocracy of life, ' the pleasure Mott takes in noting and appreciating is obvious--and contagious. --Elaine Equi Glenn Mott's Eclogues in a Mustard Seed Garden is a unique compendium of wit and wisdom, contradiction and confirmation. It's like a mini-library in one volume, generating insight, argument, amusement, and entertainment. My favorite pun in the book, in a section on mushrooms: 'NOW, FORAGER.' --Michael Lally Praise for Previous Work A book of humility rather than the falsely heroic, written by one as sensitive to the attenuations of life and the nuances of culture as any I've yet read. --Garrett Hongo
