| Description |
xxviii, 279 pages ; 17 cm |
| Contents |
Part one, impermanence -- Jade flower palace / Tu Fu ; Summer grasses / Matsuo Basho ; Fields, a house, many mulberry trees, fine gardens! / Han Shan ; I never longed for the wilder side of life / Ryokan ; Detached observer / Saigyo ; Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost ; Korean mums / James Schuyler ; Wild swans at coole / William Butler Yeats ; Sonnet 73 / William Shakespeare ; Autumn thoughts sent far away / Po Chu-i ; Continuing / A. R. Ammons ; Winter has withered everything / Saigyo ; 12th moon 14th sun / Su Tung-Po ; This world of dew / Kobayashi Issa ; Niagara River / Kay Ryan ; After reading the Tibetan Book of the Dead / Lucia Perillo ; Widow's lament in springtime / William Carlos Williams ; Delia Rexroth / Kenneth Rexroth ; October 9, 1970 / Andrea Hollander ; If you knew / Ellen Bass ; A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth ; Mother I never knew / Kobayashi Issa ; In memoriam Mae Noblitt / A. R. Ammons ; Day Lady died / Frank O'Hara ; Dog / Ron Padgett ; Ambulances / Philip Larkin ; Death stoops over me / Tomas Transtromer ; February 23 / Yannis Ritsos ; Train ride / Ruth Stone ; Enounter / Czeshaw Milosz ; January 4 / Yannis Ritsos ; Death / Bill Knott ; Ode to a dead carob tree / Pablo Neruda ; Reconciliation / Walt Whitman ; Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa ; I don't know how a day flew by us / Anna Kamienska ; Days / Philip Larkin ; Day / James Schuyler ; Moon is a house / Ikkyu Sojun ; Waka on impermanence / Eihei Dogen ; Old man / Yosa Buson ; I could name some names / Lucia Perillo ; They laugh at me, hey farm boy / Han Shan ; In my medicine cabinet / Jack Kerouac ; Joke / Ron Padgett -- Part two, mindfulness -- Shoveling snow with Buddha / Billy Collins ; Snow man / Wallace Stevens ; Empty mirror / Kenneth Rexroth ; Piute Creek / Gary Snyder ; After ten years in the red-light district / Ikkyu Sojun ; Listening / William Stafford ; Listening deeply / Dick Allen ; White horse / D. H. Lawrence ; Clarifications / A. R. Ammons ; Aware / Denise Levertov ; Our two silences / Anna Swir ; In the depths of west mountain, visiting the master / Wei Ying-Wu ; Coolness / Yosa Buson ; Watching a white falcon set loose / Li Po ; Fine work with pitch and copper / William Carlos Williams ; Distant mountains / Kobayashi Issa ; Reflective / A. R. Ammons ; Auto Mirror / Adam Zagajewski ; Tree at my window / Robert Frost ; No title required / Wislawa Szymborska ; A leaf / Bronislaw Maj ; In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound ; One look at plum blossoms / Old Shoju ; Now you see it / Ron Padgett ; Lighthouse / Jane Hirshfield ; Void in Form / Ikkyu Sojun ; Study of two pears / Wallace Stevens ; Fish / Elizabeth Bishop ; Hyla Brook / Robert Frost ; Moon's the same old moon / Shido Bunan ; Zazen on Ching-t'ing mountain / Li Po ; A double rapture / Anna Swir ; Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain ookout / Gary Snyder ; This slowly drifting cloud is pitiful / Eihei Dogen ; Night is fresh and cool / Ryokan ; I stand and look / Walt Whitman ; Here / Philip Larkin ; Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop ; Poor / William Carlos Williams ; I'm going to roll over / Kobayashi Issa ; Miracle fair / Wislawa Szymborska ; Li the mountain recluse stays the night on our boat / Po Chu-i ; Wrapping the rice cakes / Matsuo Basho -- Part three, joy -- First days of spring-the sky / Ryokan ; With Mao and Fang, visiting bright insight monastery / Su Tung-Po ; Children imitating cormorants / Kobayashi Issa ; Nothing satisfies some appetites / Ryokan ; Joy of fishes / Chuang-Tzu ; Cloud road's choked with deep mist. No one gets here that way / Han Shan ; A field of cotton / Matsuo Basho ; Such a moon / Yosa Buson ; Full moon / Kobayashi Issa ; A cicada shell / Matsuo Basho ; A blessing / James Wright ; Horses / Pablo Neruda ; Horses at midnight without a moon / Jack Gilbert ; |
| Summary |
"Over 125 poetic companions for all life's ups and downs. The Buddha once told a disciple that good spiritual friends are the whole of holy life. The poems expertly gathered here offer all that one might hope for in such spiritual friendship: wisdom, compassion, peacefulness, good humor, and the ability to both absorb and express the deepest human emotions of grief and joy. The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy offers a wide-ranging collection of 129 ancient and modern poems unlike any other anthology on bookshelves today. It uniquely places Buddhist poets like Han Shan, Tu Fu, Saigyo, Ryokan, Basho, Issa, and others alongside modern Western poets one would not expect to find in such a collection--poets like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, William Stafford, Denise Levertov, Jack Gilbert, Ellen Bass, Billy Collins, and more. What these poems have in common, no matter whether they are explicitly Buddhist, is that all reflect the essential truths the Buddha articulated 2,500 years ago. The book provides an important poetic complement to the many prose books on mindfulness practice--the poems here both reflect and embody the dharma in ways that can't be matched by other modes of writing. Its unique features include an introduction that discusses the themes of impermanence, mindfulness, and joy and explores the relationship between them. Biographical notes place the poets in historical context and offer quotes and anecdotes to help readers learn about the poets' lives. A short essay at the back of the book on "Mindful Reading" helps readers approach the poems from an experiential, non-analytical perspective and illustrates the similarities between meditation and the mindful reading of poetry. Brehm also includes a guided meditation on sound that helps readers appreciate the sonic qualities of poetry and shows how the anthology might be used in ongoing spiritual practice"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Mindfulness (Psychology) -- Poetry.
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Impermanence (Buddhism) -- Poetry.
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Dharma (Buddhism) -- Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Added Name(S) |
Brehm, John, 1955- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781614293316 (paperback) |
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