With Flowers of Jade

A Special Limited Edition

"With Flowers of Jade" is a collection of poems and images from Eric's trip to Cambodia in June of 2016. This is a limited hardcover, coffee-table quality edition and each copy will be numbered and signed by the author.
Hardbound. 8"x 8"
30 pages

$30.00 (Includes shipping)

Dream in a Language
Kbal Spean
Apsara
Phnom Krom
Heat Vision
Night Market, Siem Reap
Captured (The Moment)
The Silence Descends
Empire Regained
In This Time
Centered
Buddha Heart
On Phnom Kulen
Sunrise on Pre Rup
Written by the Rain
Well of Shadows
The Music a Serpent
Moments of Pure Awe
Dream Climb
The Old Ways
Bound for the Empty Jungle

To really appreciate Eric Walter’s With Flowers of Jade, it is helpful to know some things about him. He was trained in the theater at Reed College. There he immersed himself in the modern masters:  Beckett, Brecht, Genet and others. From this training you notice two great strengths in his poetry:  concision and dramatic effect. David Bromberg has said of Bob Dylan that he really knows how to get a song across. Walter knows how to get a poem across as a dramatic statement. He is a performer. He is a musician as well as a poet. He often memorizes his poems. Thus, he knows how language works in the body and how to use his body to get his poems across. This generates intense precision; no words in his poems are wasted or extraneous. In this handsome book—a work of art itself in its design and visual images—Walter brings his immersion in the culture of Cambodia. You get more than travelogue. You get hands and hearts across the ocean in deep, mutual exchange...If you like to expand your sense of the scope of what poetry can do, don’t miss With Flowers of Jade. Truly, it is a work of art. 
                                                                                                                 --Philip Woods (Poet, Teacher, Historian) - Lakewood, Colorado - January 2018