What Book!?
Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 1994
272 pages
978-1-935209-08-9 (ISBN)
Description
With poems from spiritual teachers to jazz musicians, from the monastery to the street, What Book!? brings together a boad range of verse, expressions of living in an awakened way. " A poet once located poetry as somewhere before or after words take place. Mindfulness is the practice of finding that realm, dwelling there, and cultivating the ability to live completely in the present, deeply aware and appreciative of life." - from the author's Preface. "This enigmatically titled anthology offers numerous delights and valuable evidence that great poetic variety, from haiku and witty two liners to page-long discourses, has by now given distinct expression to Western Buddhism." - Publisher's Weekly.
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Editor Gary Gach is a writer and lifelong meditator who has engaged in many roles during his lifetime including: actor, bookshop clerk, dishwasher, hospital administrator, office temp, stevedore, teacher, and typographer. Lay-ordained by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in 2008, he has authored eight books. Gary lives in San Francisco, California.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Pre Face
- Mitsu Suzuki
- Haiku
- Soyen Shaku
- En Route to America
- Kyozan Joshu
- "Whenever I hear ."
- Derek Walcott
- Love after Love
- Norman Fischer
- Sesshin Poem
- A Model of the Universe
- Lawson Fusao Inada
- In/Vocation
- 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
- "If you have time to chatter ."
- Sugar Loaf Hill
- Jack Kerouac
- from The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
- Orizaba Blues: 64th Chorus
- Orlanda Blues: 24th Chorus
- 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 of animal existing ."
- 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 Hirshfield
- The Adamantine Perfection of Desire
- Mitsu Suzuki
- "Swiftly walking away ."
- Jaan Kaplinksi
- "Once I got a postcard ."
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Journal entries
- Garrett Hongo
- Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi
- Alan 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 words
- a 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
- bell hooks
- as they bury the dead
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Please Call Me by My True Names
- Ted Sexauer
- The Well
- The Ambivalent Nature of Healing
- Poem for Têt
- Claude AnShin Thomas
- "As / the / soldiers ."
- "A / bullet / slams ."
- "Alone / with only ."
- "Anyone can ."
- Jim Cohn
- On Non-Violence & Observation
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- The Witness Remains
- Lorenzo Thomas
- MMDCCXIII ½
- Thulani Davis
- Aria from X: "I would not tell you ."
- Thich Tue Sy
- Stone Walls
- Hermit Thoughts
- A Cup of Clear Water
- Anonymous Tibetan nuns
- "Looking through the window ."
- "The fragrance of the lotus ."
- "My country wasn't sold, it was stolen ."
- Patricia Donegan
- Check Up
- Gary Rosenthal
- Ghetto Dokusan
- Daigan Lueck
- "You want to climb the steps ."
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Millennium Cities
- Ecolog
- At Kenneth Rexroth's
- Kenneth Rexroth
- "Water is always the same - ."
- Void Only
- Thomas Merton
- "I am about to make my home ."
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Gift
- Stephen Mitchell
- Bamboo
- Orchid and Rock
- The Sense of Proportion
- Robert Aitken
- Gathas
- Tassajara Zen Mountain Center Sangha
- Gathas
- Mitsu Suzuki
- "Soft rain ."
- Jane Hirshfield
- Each Step
- The Heart's Counting Knows Only One
- William Kistler
- Standing Near the Ghats Along the Ganges
- Kyoto I - Kinkaku-ji
- Kyoto II - Ryoanji
- Sam Hamill
- "Wanting one good organic line, ."
- Robert Duncan
- "I have ."
- For the Assignment of the Spirit
- Robert Kelly
- Sermon on Language
- Holy Sonnet
- from The Flowers of Unceasing Coincidence
- Charles Stein
- "My hat vanished. ."
- Shinkichi Takahashi
- Words
- Gary Warner
- Haiku
- John Cage
- from 45' for a Speaker
- Leslie Scalapino
- "A man getting on a bus ."
- Yoko Ono
- Painting to Be Constructed in Your Head
- Painting to Hammer a Nail
- Smoke Painting
- Takehisa Kosugi
- Micro
- Chironomy
- Manodharma with Mr. Y.
- Anima 1
- Organic Music
- Theater Music
- Mieko Shiomi (Chieko)
- Passing Music for a Tree
- Disappearing Music for Face
- Event for Late Afternoon
- Mirror
- Portrait Piece
- Music for Two Players II
- Allan Kaprow
- "Suppose you telephone your own answering ."
- Laurie Anderson
- Wild White Horses
- Amy Champ
- from Vote for Sun
- Steve Sanfield
- Hoop
- Manzan
- "One minute of sitting, one inch of Buddha ."
- Clark Coolidge
- "ounce code orange ."
- "listene ."
- "by a I ."
- Jackson Mac Low
- "galactic anachronisms enslave assessments"
- Twenties 3
- "awakening"
- Paul Reps
- Poem Before Words
- Richard Kostelanetz
- A to Z
- Kazuaki Tanahashi
- Six characters from the Heart Sutra
- Paul Reps
- Poem Before Words
- Paul Reps
- Poem Before Words
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- "Reverence ."
- Ngodup Paljor
- The Way
- Peter Bailey
- "Don't ."
- Kazuaki Tanahashi
- "Does the brush paint, or does the ink? Or does the paper, ."
- "Can five hundred paintings be created in one stroke?"
- "One-line poem? Why not one-word poem?"
- Paul Reps
- Poem Before Words
- Shunryu Suzuki
- Beginner's Mind
- Lew Welch
- "Step out onto the Planet. ."
- Peter Bailey
- Practice
- Lawson Fusao Inada
- A Nice Place
- Ness
- In So Doing
- Clearing
- Keep Quiet
- Just Made It
- The List
- Forest Family
- Pledge
- Jonathan Greene
- Ruts
- Hut Poem #1
- Ko Un
- Walking down a mountain
- Ripples
- Asking the Way
- Baby
- Annihilation
- Atanu Dey
- The Buddha and I
- Peter Levitt
- The Measure
- from 100 Butterflies
- Steve Sanfield
- "I like my poems short ."
- A Poem for Those of You Who Are Sometimes Troubled by Barking Dogs and Low Flying Jets
- Concern
- Diane di Prima
- "black & white cat ."
- "after months of sitting ."
- "the pine shadow falls on the tent wall ."
- Three "Dharma Poems"
- I Fail as a Dharma Teacher
- Buddhist Ruminations
- Chögyam Trungpa
- Haiku
- Sakyong Mipham
- Snow Fell Twice, the Sun Always Shone
- Allen Ginsberg
- "Sitting crosslegged on a wooden floor ."
- "The moon in the dewdrop is the real moon ."
- Selected American Sentences and Haiku
- Manhattan May Day Midnight
- New Stanzas for "Amazing Grace"
- Taigen Dan Leighton
- "Giving Buddha to all beings is giving to oneself. ."
- All of Us So Close to Buddha
- Mariane Baggers Eriksen
- "I dropped something. I picked it up ."
- Hester G. Storm
- Bop for Laotzu
- Adam Yauch
- Bodhisattva Vow
- The Update
- Peter Coyote
- "Do you think ."
- Butch Hancock
- My Mind's Got a Mind of Its Own
- Circumstance
- Susan Griffin
- Summer Night
- Bob Kaufman
- ". there is a silent beat in between the drums. ."
- Thomas Merton
- from In Silence
- Arthur Sze
- The Silence
- Ice Floe
- Patricia Y. Ikeda
- Wood
- Wild Iris
- Ok-Koo Kang Grosjean
- Iris
- Were I a Flower
- Steve Sanfield
- Hoop
- Ok-Koo Kang Grosjean
- Garden
- Wind
- Lew Welch
- Redwood Haiku
- Difficulty Along the Way
- Small Sentence to Drive Yourself Sane
- Large Little Circle
- "I saw myself ."
- Springtime in the Rockies, Lichen
- James Laughlin
- What Is Hoped for
- Dainin Katagiri
- Peaceful Life
- "You are nearly as old as the number of years it has been ."
- Seung Sahn
- "Good and Bad are eminent teachers. ."
- "The mountain sinks into the sea ."
- Taizan Maezumi
- "Untransmittable & moving eastward. ."
- Etsudo Nishikawa
- "Round, round, more round than the moon
- ."
- Bernard Tetsugen Glassman
- Ascending the Mountain
- Tenshin Reb Anderson
- To Bodhidharma
- To My First Teacher
- Sojun Mel Weitsman and Zen Center Sangha
- Mondo
- Michael Wenger
- Zen Corners
- Jaan Kaplinski
- "Shunryu Suzuki ."
- Amy Uyematsu
- Tea
- Lone Pine
- Arthur Sze
- Fauve
- Wang Wei
- Deer Park
- Wendy Johnson
- River Meditation
- Robert Sund
- The Frog I Saved from a Snake
- Two Poems for the Good Given
- Robinson Jeffers
- Carmel Point
- Jim Cohn
- Jemez Mountains Meditation
- Anita Barrows
- "How many million years before wood turns to stone? ."
- John Tarrant
- The Hula Dancers Dance the Hula, Kilauea the Caldera
- Antler
- Trees Seen Now
- One Breath
- David Tokuyu Reid-Marr
- Zen Mountain Center
- Cedar
- Live Oak
- Condor
- Kenji Miyazawa
- Dawn
- The Politicians
- Some Views Concerning the Proposed Site of a National Park
- Antler
- American History in Context
- Nanao Sakaki
- North America
- Let's Eat Stars
- Gary Snyder
- Smokey the Bear Sutra
- Denise Lassaw-Paljor
- Counting Breaths
- For a Moose
- Jim Harrison
- "Not here and now but now and here. ."
- Dan Gerber
- Afterwords
- Rebecca Radner
- I Want to Write like a Postcard
- Like That
- Keith Abbott
- The Illusion Collector, Age 37
- Haiku
- Gary Gach
- Inflight
- Jerry Kilbride
- Haiku
- Wes "Scoop" Nisker
- Haiku
- Whatever
- Brigid Lowry
- In the World
- Lisa Cullen
- Reasons to Meditate
- Mary Oliver
- Going to Walden
- Wendy Lewis
- It's Like This
- Cid Corman
- "Learn to live ."
- Ngodup Paljor
- "Robert Frost and I ."
- "Exhausted by jogging ."
- "The wish of my Amala ."
- "I woke up early ."
- "Cars stuck in the snow ."
- M. C. Richards
- Snow
- Eve Merriam
- Summer's End
- John Mueller
- Rubber Eraser
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Journey
- Existence
- Appendix I
- Mind Writing Slogans
- Appendix II
- Mind Writing: Exercises in Poetic Candor
- Appendix III
- Interbeing
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Author Index
- About the Publisher
