“A brilliant, compassionate, heart-breakingly written, woven, acknowledgement of the unimaginable Anthropocene rolling toward us. As Douglas says, ‘We are being carried forward into a disturbed and disturbing unknown.’ But this is not a book of gloom and doom, as he writes, ‘We must move forward.’”
The Age of Waiting
by Douglas J. Penick
The Age of Waiting by Douglas J. Penick is a personal memoir enriched by the history of Buddhism and a re-telling of foundational Buddhist tales. Penick confronts not only his own mortality, but also that of the planet. This eloquent, impassioned investigation links our contemporary reality — with its medical, economic, and ecological emergencies — to an inner landscape which may prove more constant, durable, and transformative than we realize.
Douglas J. Penick
Douglas J. Penick has written opera libretti (Munich Biennale, Santa Fe Opera), texts for video (NFB/Canada: Leonard Cohen, narrator), as well as novels on the 3rd Ming Emperor (Journey of the North Star) and about spiritual searchers (Dreamers and Their Shadows). He also wrote three book-length episodes from the Gesar of Ling epic on a grant for the Witter Bynner Foundation. Wakefield Press published his and Charles Ré’s translation of Pascal Quignard’s A Terrace In Rome. Shorter works appeared in Agni, Chicago Quarterly, Cahiers de L’Herne, New England Quarterly, Kyoto Journal, Tricycle, Utne Reader, and many others.
