| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Foreword by Peter Coyote; Pre Face by Gary Gach; Mitsu Suzuki; Haiku; Soyen Shaku; En Route to America; Kyozan Joshu; Whenever I hear ... -- Derek Walcott; Love after Love; Norman Fischer; Sesshin Poem*; Lawson Fusao Inada; In/Vocation for Mal Waldron; Gary Snyder; How Poetry Comes to Me; Song of the Taste; Avocado; Saying Farewell at the Monastery after Hearing the Old Master Lecture on Return to The Source -- As for Poets; Without; Earth Verse; Nanao Sakaki; Just Enough; Top Ten of American Poetry; Sugar Loaf Hill; Jack Kerouac; from The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Orizaba BluesOrlanda Blues; Bath Tub Thought; To Edward Dahlberg; Haiku; Albert Saijo; Bodhisattva Vows; Bob Kaufman; ... solitary thoughts on death and other illegal mysteries; THE TRIP, DHARMA TRIP, SANGHA TRIP -- Al Young; Third Street Promenade; Full Moon, Sunday Night, Santa Monica; Philip Whalen; off. . . -- Take dandelions first salad -- Absolute -- Hoist great blocks of language into place ... -- PET SHOP -- The End of the Line -- SATURDAY; Joanne Kyger; Never talk ahead ... -- Duncan's class met last night. . . -- It's a great day. -- Bird family -- Dream |
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"Oh Man is the highest type ... The Empty Shrine Buddha; Patricia Donegan; Something Happened; Half-Open; Tonight -- Andrew Schelling; Run My Hand Under; Anne Waldman; Yum Yab; Rick Fields; The Very Short Sutra on the Meeting of the Buddha and the Goddess; Steve Sanfield; Alone in the house ... -- Gary Rosenthal; Wild Hooves; Gillian Coote; You; Jane Hirschfield; The Adamantine Perfection of Desire; Mitsu Suzuki; Swiftly walking away ... ; Jann Kaplinski; Once I got a postcard from the Fiji Islands ... ; Maxine Hong Kingston; Journal Entries; Garrett Hongo |
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Something Whispered in the ShakuhachiAlan Chong Lau; wintermelon; bittermelon; eating habits of the old man; morning reflections over the miso soup; Russell Leong; What Does the Body Dream at Rest?; Threads; Paula Yup; The Things I Miss; Telly Wong; Loneliness; Mitsu Suzuki; Summer butterfly ... -- William R. Lafleur; Wedding Party; Steve Sanfield; Birthday Poem; Judyth Collin; The Layman's Lament; John Tarrant; Han Shan in Santa Rosa; Caitlin O'Donnell; Footprints; Alex Marlowe; He Does Not Give the Reader One Line of Information; Jessemyn Meyerhoff; snow |
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The resounding echo of the buddha's wordsa million times; Nova Ray; The Last Flower; Jamie Meyerhoff; On Impermanence; Three Ravens; Allison Harris; Nothing Much; Will Staple; Shen Tao; Jordan Jones; Zen Baker; Gillian Coote; Tenzo's Song; Al Robles; Ryokan the Crazy Snow Poet; Nina Wise; To Papaji*; William Larsen; Surrender; Tom Greening; My Children Visit the Zendo; Sarah Arsone; A Father's Poem; Miriam Sagan; "Winter burn"; Diana Levy; Honey; Dan Clurman; The Berkeley Marina at Dusk; To David; Susan Griffin; Born into a World Knowing; Yusef Komunyakaa; We Never Know |
| Summary |
What Book!? is a lively anthology of modern mindful poetry, featuring 330 selections from 125 contributors. Also included are "mind-writing exercises" by Allen Ginsberg and a meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh. Themes include love, nature, pacifism and violence, the avant-garde, family, silence, and song. The contents include original work and translations; performance art and conceptual art; lyrics, arias, and blues; picture poems and calligraphy; prose poetry and sonnets; haiku; meditations and sutras; journal entries; bucolics; jeremiads; postmodernism; and other artifacts from the from the intersection of meditation and art |
| Notes |
2527th Birthday of the Buddha |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Buddhist poetry, American.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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FICTION -- General.
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American poetry
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Buddhist poetry, American
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gach, Gary, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781935209089 |
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1935209086 |
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