"In couplets, verse, and prose passages, Eclogues in a Mustard Seed Garden transcends inherited poetic forms and the garden variety truths of East and West. Glenn Mott finds inspiration everywhere, from the Adagia of Erasmus, to Virgil's Bucolics, to the seventeenth century Chinese Painting Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden. His work joins the Western tradition of the eclogue with classical Chinese poetry, wisdom literature, and the Zen epigram. Mott recasts the eclogue for a contemporary setting, reflecting the sinister and pleasurable aspects of social life in both country and city"--