<blockquote><p>Each reading of your palm a different road<br />
verging from soil and forking into possibilities<br />
in a wild and foreign ocean<br />
no vaster than the line it makes with the sky</p></blockquote>

<p>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&rsquo;s wet clay can be shaped into artifacts of exceeding beauty and lasting resonance.</p>