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. 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