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Experience : thinking, writing, language, & religion / Norman Fischer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fischer, Norman, 1946- author.
- Series:
- Modern and contemporary poetics.
- Modern & contemporary poetics
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism.
- Poetry.
- Buddhism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- By what narrow path is the ineffable silence of Zen cleft by the scratch of a pen?The distilled insights of forty years, Norman Fischer's Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion is a collection of essays by Zen master Fischer about experimental writing as a spiritual practice.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- I. Early Takes
- Manifesto on Writing
- The Poetics of Emptiness
- On Difficulty in Writing
- The Name
- For Tyuonyi
- Zen / Poetry
- Explanations About My Poetry for Kenyon College Students
- In the American West: Portrait Photos by Richard Avedon
- The One-Stroke Paintings of Kazuaki Tanahashi
- Waltzing Matilda by Alice Notley
- Total Absence and Total Presence in the Work of Barrett Watten
- Ted Berrigan, American Poet, 1934-1983
- Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters, 1917-1961
- The Poetics of Lived Experience and the Concept of the Person
- Modernism, Postmodernism, and Values
- II. Are You Writing?
- Are You Writing?
- On Buddhist Writing
- Do You Want to Make Something Out of It? Zen Meditation and the Artistic Impulse
- Bewilderment
- Beyond Language
- Phrases and Spaces
- Blizzard of Depictions
- Saved from Freezing: Spiritual Practice, Art Practice
- Attention en Route: Buddhism and American Avant-Garde Poetry, a Personal View
- On Questioning
- An Everyday Zen Letter, Mid-June 2012, Muir Beach
- III. Beyond Thinking
- Poetry and Faith
- Introduction to Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation by Zen Master Dogen
- Introduction to Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of Psalms
- Preface to Paul Naylor's Jammed Transmission
- Afterword to Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
- On Stephen Ratcliffe's Portraits &
- Repetition: Seeing/Hearing/Writing
- A Page for Phil
- Review of Philip Whalen's Overtime: Selected Poems
- Activity Is the Only Community: The Writing of Leslie Scalapino
- On Hank Lazers Elegies and Vacations
- A Short Note on the Visual Poetry of Whalen, Grenier, and Lazer
- A Note on Charles Bernstein's Attack of the Difficult Poems
- On the Heart Sutra
- On Dogen's Shobogenzo.
- Rethinking Ritual
- IV. Experience
- A Few Words About Emptiness
- Light(silence)word
- The Violence of Oneness
- On God for Sue
- Hank Lazer-Norman Fischer Interview, July 2010
- For the Poem Itself-A Language View: An Interview with Norman Fischer by Monica Heredia and Denise Newman
- Sixty-Five
- Counting, Naming
- Late Work
- Imagination
- Experience.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8852-4
- OCLC:
- 956142545
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