"Human beings live in the dirt,
like bugs in a filthy bowl.
All day long crawling around and around,
never getting over the edge.
Even spiritual masters can't make it,
wracking their brains for schemes and plans.
The months and the years, a running river:
Then there's the day you wake up old."
- Han Shan, Circa 850 CE
Poetry, Poets, Poetry and Buddhism, Zen Poetry, Haiku
Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry. Edited by Kent Johnson and Craig Paulenich. Introduction by Gary Snyder. Shambhala, 1991, 331 pages. Includes short essays and poetry by Diane de Prima, Norman Fischer, Nelson Foster, Sam Hamill, Alan Ginsberg, Jane Hirshfield, Lucien Stryk, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, and others. VSCL, Paperback.
A Poets Guide to Poetry. By Mary Kinzie. University of Chicago, 1999, index, credits, 561 pages. VSCL, Paperback. Ways to improve your reading, study, and writing of poetry. A detailed and challenging college textbook.
The Poetry of Michael P. Garofalo
The Poetry of Zen. Translated by Sam Hamill and J.P. Seaton. Shambhala, 2007, 208 pages.
Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter. Translated and commentary by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto. Grove Press, 1995, 124 pages. VSCL, Paperback.
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