{"product_id":"tea-ceremonies-for-winter-rolando-perez-9781887276894","title":"Tea Ceremonies for Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Japanese tea ceremony is an attempt to impart meaning to that which would oth- erwise go unnoticed. After all, what is so different about serving, pouring, drinking tea, than the brushing of one's teeth? No-thing. What gives significance to the serving of the tea is the \"ceremony\" itself--that is, the form. For in the tea ceremony, the form is the content. Now, in comparison to the Western poem, \"full of\" meaning, allusions, mythologies, history, etc. a haiku may \"just\" describe a scene in nature: the landscape: a river, a tree, a bird, and not much else. But that is so very much already, Rolando P駻ez seems to suggest in \u003cem\u003eTea Ceremonies for Winter\u003c\/em\u003e. So very much. \"The objects of nature pre- sented in a Basho haiku, for instance, simply are--they exist for themselves,\" says P駻ez. \"If they are 'sublime, ' they are not so for us,\" and this is what we must all learn, if we are to save the Earth from complete destruction--the result of our Western greed and rampant narcissism. In this light, \u003cem\u003eTea Ceremonies for Winter \u003c\/em\u003eis an invitation--through lan- guage--to let non-human objects be without submitting them to the control, manipu- lation, and exploitation of our Imperial I. P駻ez's \u003cem\u003eTea Ceremonies for Winter \u003c\/em\u003eis a book that says: \"we are all in this together\"--but that \"we\" also includes mountains, rivers, plastic bags, plants, rocks, tea leaves, light bulbs valves, hammers, mice, etc.. P駻ez accomplishes this with simplicity and elegance of style \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rolando Pérez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1887276890\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781887276894\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cool Grove Publishing Inc NY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.40d","brand":"Rolando Pe\u0026#769;rez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939071328511,"sku":"9781887276894","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_750a5e84-9795-4576-90c9-30656bc6d7bc.jpg?v=1681439325","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tea-ceremonies-for-winter-rolando-perez-9781887276894","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}