CONTENTS

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Transformations of a Transpacific Imaginary

Introduction: The Poetics of Emptiness, or a Cult of Nothingness

PART ONE Buddhist Imaginaries

1  Emptiness in Flux: The Buddhist Poetics of Ernest Fenollosa’s “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry”

2  Patterned Harmony: Buddhism, Sound, and Ernest Fenollosa’s Poetics of Correlative Cosmology

3  Teaching the Law: Gary Snyder’s Poetics of Emptiness

PART TWO Daoist Imaginaries

4  Language of Emptiness: Wai-lim Yip’s Daoist Project

5  Pacing the Void: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index