| What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop Contributor(s): Gach, Gary (Editor), Coyote, Peter (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0938077929 ISBN-13: 9780938077923 Publisher: Parallax Press OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1994 Annotation: Now in its third printing, this visionary project received the 1999 American Book Award. Topics included the Three Jewels, pacifism, engagement, innovation, nature, song, and silence. "What Book?" contains forms ranging from picture poems and calligraphy, guided meditations, and rambling journals, to conceptual and performance art, arias, and haiku. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Religion | Buddhism - General (see Also Philosophy - Buddhist) - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.540 |
| LCCN: 98005403 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 4.49" W x 8.06" (0.55 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |