David Lindley is a writer, poet and translator. His most recent work is a verse translation of the Bhagavad Gita, The Song of Myself. Something & Nothing: Selected Poems, includes versions of poems from Japanese and Chinese. He is the author of a series of philosophical reflections on the nature of the self and subjective experience, The Freedom to Be Tragic: 'Only our subjective experience of the world as an aesthetic phenomenon, and ourselves as its creator, can rescue us from the confines of the objective and the given, from arbitrary existence.'.