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- English
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Zen Master Poems
About this book
A unique voice in American poetry evocative of Han Shan's Zen verses, Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions, and the writings of Jack Kerouac. What a long conversation
we never had! All those rivers?
we never crossed together. You so busy with your own life,
I so busy with mine. Dick Allen, one of the founders of the Expansive Poetry movement, has won the Robert Frost Prize, the Hart Crane Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prizeāamong others. His work has been anthologized five times in the Best American Poetry volumes, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Tricycle, The Buddhist Poetry Review, and The American Poetry Review, as well as numerous other publications. He's a former fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, and a former Poet Laureate for the state of Connecticut, where he lives and writes.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- The Zen Master
- To Be with a Koan
- When Youāre in Trouble
- It Was an Era
- How Good It Would Be
- Special Transmission
- A Two-Hundred-Year-Old Drinking Cup
- Evocations
- A Night Gas Station
- When I Was Young
- The Strange Magic of Your Life
- On the Raft
- On the Raft II
- After a Heavy, Clinging Snow
- Frisbee
- Following Anotherās Example
- Dread
- Sadness
- Lost Souls
- Excuse Me
- Of the Ten Thousand Things
- A Dice Game
- You Have Too Much
- Of Mazu
- How Can I Keep Them Together
- Annoyance
- I Like Things
- Reminiscence
- Here, I Shall Dwell
- You May Leave a Memory, Or You Can Be Feted by Crows
- What Good Is Zen
- Fortune Cookie Master
- The Constant Sound
- Gaze
- One Day You Wish Yourself Dead
- A Basketball Game
- Legend Has It
- What a Long Conversation
- The Secret Is to Leap
- Unaccountable Days
- To Get Ahead
- Listening Deeply
- As Han-Shan Observed
- The Tribute
- When Your Enthusiasm Dies
- A Lesson
- A Tanka
- It Isnāt Going to Get Any Better
- Minute to Minute
- Does the Spoon Perceive the Soup?
- Not Why, But What
- Road Trip Song
- Some Places for Prayer
- The Taoist, Pausing
- Chanced Upon
- Pondering Kuai-Shan
- Songbirds Brush
- Years and Years
- Escape
- Seeing
- More Donāt Know
- Burning Duality
- What Did You Kill
- Words Collected
- There Are Many Secrets
- Claim
- Five Poems
- Rewriting a Poem of Seasons by Seung Sahn
- Raking in a Japanese Sand Garden
- As I Cut Down the Forest of Desires
- More and More
- A Prayer Box
- Christians Say
- For Fifty Years Now
- Skin-Bag
- Turning Over the Tea Bowl
- When You Find the Tree
- In a World without Forests
- I Face the Image of the Buddha
- This Carnelian Mala
- His Book
- If You Can Find the Door
- After Han-Shan, Again
- Moment
- Trying to Observe Again
- Words of Reassurance
- The Flower Arrangerās Instructions
- Shaping
- Question Everything
- Covered by the Husk
- The Grip
- If Itās Not One Thing
- How Strange
- Gifts
- As Long as I Wake Up
- Cat
- Awakening the Fire
- Not Too Far from the Golden Gate
- Lying Prone
- Thirty Thousand Days
- Should You Come Across
- A Harmony
- Sickness Is My Companion
- Exile
- Water beside the Road
- The World Delights
- Eggshells Are So Light
- Wild Geese
- I Would Like to Leave
- Ten Years, Fifteen Years
- Today, I Looked
- Releasing Life
- How Long Shall I Wait
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Also Available from Wisdom Publications
- About Wisdom Publications
- Copyright
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