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		<title>Editorial</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hoa Pham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This edition themed &#8220;The meaning of life&#8221; features an interview with Alice Pung exploring her meaning of life.
It includes a poem inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Zen Master, a commentary by Rosey Chang on the Dalai Lama and poetry by myself, Rosey and George Mouradatis. We also have a sound piece by Josh Goldman, for seven voices without words and a review of a workshop I attended at the University of Wollongong on Asian/Australian Values: New Directions in Australian Literature.
The next issues will be themed &#8220;Drama&#8221; with the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Alice Pung</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hoa Pham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alice Pung is the author of the highly successful &#8220;An Unpolished Gem&#8221;. We managed to catch her in between literary dates and her work as a lawyer to ask her a few questions about the meaning of life.

What is the meaning of life to you? 
AP: We&#8217;ve really started off with an easy question, haven&#8217;t we?! The best answer I know to this question does not come from me. It comes from Andrew Denton, or more accurately, a woman he interviewed. A few years back Denton interviewed this woman named ...]]></description>
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		<title>Asian/Australian Values Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hoa Pham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Highlights from the Asian/Australian Values: New Directions in Australian Literature Workshop
I attended this workshop along with Tom Cho courtesy of Wenche Ommundsen and Alison Broinowski who brought together writers, publishers and academics to discuss Asian/Australian Values. Much was quoted from the current Griffith Review issue “In the Neighbourhood”, which featured articles discussing translation and “contamination” as a way of literary cross-pollination.

A common thread of the conference was a discussion counterpointing the Howard era’s debate around Australian values and the then governmental interference in the teaching of history and English.
Robert Dixon ...]]></description>
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		<title>Language &#8211; an audio composition by Josh Goldman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hoa Pham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh Goldman is a composer / improviser / guitarist / educator who resides in the United States. He composes / improvises / performs music, using acoustic and electronic sources, for various ensembles and settings. Much of his music combines sound and visual elements (film / video / various installation spaces). His compositions and performances have been heard and awarded internationally. Mr. Goldman holds degrees from New England Conservatory of Music (BM in music performance) and Brooklyn College, CUNY (MM in music composition).&#160; 
Language is a stereophonic sound structure composed for ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Dalai Lama and the Dharma</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosey Chang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a student of Dharma, the Buddha’s teachings. I’m a baby student and very new to the path. Never having attended a Buddhist teaching or even read a Buddhist book, when I was 25 I bought a ticket to teachings by the Dalai Lama in Sydney. Although raised a Catholic, I naively expected to return from the teachings a convert; but these things rarely go to plan.

There I was, at the Sydney Show Grounds hall bedecked in maroon curtains, in the same room as the Dalai Lama. While he was ...]]></description>
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		<title>Thich Nhat Hanh &#8211; Zen Master</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hoa Pham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saigon
He walks in silence
Ten thousand hushes
And the world takes a breath

A lake of calm
Ripples outward from the heart
An abbott kneels at his feet
With a gentle touch he rises
And all are made equal
&#8220;I have arrived, I am home”
Prajna Monastery
This seated Buddha
Overlooks the waterfall
Grey robed novices show the way
Giggling like birds
“I have arrived, I am home”
Messages of meditation
Amongst straight young pine trees
The green tea plantation mountains
Surround the Prajna inside
Ten thousand hear his words
Ten thousand feel his mantra
Each moment, each breath
Being peace personified
Melbourne
“I have arrived, I am home”
With this sangha I am never ...]]></description>
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		<title>You seem like a nice guy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosey Chang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You’re an engineer:
you understand
concrete, bearings, spans

you manage projects
you think in
time, space,
logistics, physics
you find solutions
jump to action
She doesn’t
isn’t
Somewhere you know that.
When she said,
“I can’t get married in December…”
She meant: “I’m scared
you don’t love me right.   I can’t get married in December,
maybe later”
(she hoped).
But you heard,
“Logistically,
I can’t get married in December,
maybe later.”
So you grasp at
later
found a solution
“How about March?”
“No…”
“May?”
“No…”
You think
she’s harder to crack
than the four properties of concrete
but she’s not so hard.
You know what you want:
her finally-home arms
as a bracelet round you chest
her Sunday-brunch smile
her chuckle, her steel, her doubt.
So ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hungry caterpillars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Mouratidis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edition 4 - The Meaning of Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[nameless dumb late afternoon
and silence crawls in great puddles of caterpillars—

huge tangled clumps of them, everywhere
in dribbling handfuls of larval jelly absorbing all light
splattering the cold blank walls,
hanging down in rivulet twists from cracked cornices
drooping between the folds of faded brown drapes
crawling in the kitchen among the noodles,
hovering in quivering halos around the lamp
oozing all over the sick bug-addled light bulb
plopping onto the desk in shadowy emulsions,
black hollow eye sockets overflowing with whole colonies of them—
they come in through the cracks around the door
with the numb air and a dissolving ...]]></description>
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