Beneath a Single Moon is an extraordinary collection of the work of forty-five contemporary American poets—with over 250 poems and thirty essays on the influence of spiritual practice on the practice of poetry. Included are works by John Cage, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Jane Hirshfield, Andrew Schelling, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, and others.
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This ambitious anthology includes poems and essays by 45 contemporary American poets who are practicing Buddhists. They represent a refreshingly wide range of poetic styles, from the looseness of John Cage and Allen Ginsberg to the more formal verse of Jane Hirschfield and Olga Broumas. The book also offers the reader an introduction to the diversity of American Buddhism. The poetry is uneven in quality; from the impenetrable ("of tea/how a fox/ under/ jagged rocks/ this shirt/but not an/ empty sack") to the more accessible ("I rub the dark hollow of the bowl/ with garlic, near to the fire enough/so that fire reflects on the wood,/a reverie that holds emptiness/ in high regard." An introduction by Gary Snyder is included. For Buddhist studies as well as contemporary poetry collections.
- Kathleen Norris, formerly with Lemmon P.L.,
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
- Kathleen Norris, formerly with Lemmon P.L.,
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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"This intelligent anthology provides compelling evidence of a continuing preoccupation in American thought, from Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman to the poets here represented. It is the human search for locating home, transcendent yet literal, always here even if nowhere. The complexly common voices of these writers are an insistent call to our own need, to let go of our 'lives' and so live them."—Robert Creeley
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