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Dukkha (Sanskrit) – Suffering in the most general sense; the human condition.

A new collection of poetry by J. H. Martin – author of Spring Wanderings, which addresses the Buddhist idea of suffering.

The poems in this collection are based on Martin’s reflections on his own life viewed through the guidance of Shakyamuni’s teachings in The Dhammapada.

Austere but truthful, this short collection captures the workings of the writer’s mind and holds them up to the light and invites the reader to perhaps ask the same questions about their life.

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“For Martin and his reader, in a rush to understand their presence and purpose, endurance emerges from the strangers who occupy Spring Wanderings’ strange space. Discovery lies in the road ahead, in the beauty and strangeness of the Chinese scenery haunting both sides of a timeworn path. Poet and trailing reader may have been filled, renewed by this journey, but it is the interpretation of “the old dusty bowl” that evinces transformative powers—expertly cast on the reader—that will best nourish the wearied, hungry souls that follow.”

Prick of the Spindle publishes poetry, fiction (from flash to novella-length), drama, creative and academic nonfiction, and literary reviews.

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Spring Wanderings by J. H. Martin (Rivers & Lakes Press) was reviewed by Carl Logan, in the May 2009 issue of the Midwest Book Review’s online book review magazine – Reviewer’s Bookwatch.

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Spring Wanderings chronicles author J.H. Martin’s travels through China, from town to village, city to countryside, up hills and down mountains, seeking the solitude of the peaks and the wisdom of the hermits who live there.

The poems in Spring Wanderings provide a fascinating glimpse into the lives of the rural folk the author comes across, the impressions they produced on him, and their home, which he has also chosen to make his own.

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