Zen Telegrams
Published on 6. December 2011
104 pages
978-1-4629-0224-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book of Zen poetry and art blends simple, haiku-like poetry with bold minimalist ink brush drawings.
The unique books of Paul Reps have attracted countless readers since they were first published in the 1950s. His classic Zen Flesh, Zen Bones remains one of the most popular books on Zen ever published in English.
Zen Telegrams is a collection of Reps's picture-poems," works of calligraphic art and minimalist poetry that first fascinated Japanese,then attracted Western viewers. A lesser artist trying to combine English text and Eastern art might have failed, but Reps was a rare talent, accomplished in a wide variety of literary genres and art forms.
American by birth, Reps lived in many countries and traveled throughout the world. He seemed to know no national boundaries, and his unique work appeals to a universal audience.
The unique books of Paul Reps have attracted countless readers since they were first published in the 1950s. His classic Zen Flesh, Zen Bones remains one of the most popular books on Zen ever published in English.
Zen Telegrams is a collection of Reps's picture-poems," works of calligraphic art and minimalist poetry that first fascinated Japanese,then attracted Western viewers. A lesser artist trying to combine English text and Eastern art might have failed, but Reps was a rare talent, accomplished in a wide variety of literary genres and art forms.
American by birth, Reps lived in many countries and traveled throughout the world. He seemed to know no national boundaries, and his unique work appeals to a universal audience.
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Foreword
- 1
- Stop
- Drew-Drinking Pine
- Potato Seeing
- Wisps of Straw
- Washing Dancing
- Wild Geese Cry
- Fingernails
- Brookside
- Below Ever Above
- Now Now
- Cobwebs
- Hand Opens
- Cucumbering
- Through Tears
- Words Unsaid
- Naked Too
- 2
- Telephone Me
- Who Is
- Shrieking Flower
- Overflowing Well
- Smiling Eyes
- Boxed Life
- When a Butterfly
- Scripturing Weeds
- Earthworm Writing
- House How Tiny
- Un-Flower Mind
- Peach Blossom
- Bamboo Whisper
- Period Comma
- Bowl of Tea
- Fingered Sun
- 3
- Laughing Tree
- On Our Tears
- Face in Face
- As Crane
- Grain of Sand
- Turtle Explaining
- River Silently
- Fighting Wrens
- Between Raindrops
- Sound of Flute
- Moth Caressing
- Giant Redwood
- Even Downtown
- Unborningly Reeds
- Thankful Ants
- Forgotten String
- 4
- Leaf on Leaves
- 5-stone Garden
- Square Wheel
- Unheard Music
- Dust of Dust
- Which Weed
- Farmer Food
- Be My Doll
- Path of Fish
- No No Yes
- Of Me a Picture
- Day Will Come
- Paper Flower
- Sing with Grasses
- Rocks Preaching
- Gentle Rain
- 5
- Little Bud
- Loved Pebble
- Waterfall
- Bicycle Ride
- 2nd-hand Words
- Captured Snowflakes
- Tomorrow's Name
- Mountain Rising
- Open" "Grow
- Touch of Hand
- Human Arrangement
- Nothing Something
- In Her Being
- Samurai
- Sun-Fall
