What book!? : Buddha poems from beat to hiphop / edited by Gary Gach ; foreword by Peter Coyote.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gach, Gary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist poetry, American.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : Parallax Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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

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

"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

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

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

2527th Birthday of the Buddha

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-935209-08-6

OCLC:

799768965