Steam Rising from a Full Bowl of Rice: Zen Master Dogen Versions - Softcover

Berg, Stephen

 
9780989091206: Steam Rising from a Full Bowl of Rice: Zen Master Dogen Versions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0989091201 ISBN 13: 9780989091206
Publisher: Millichap Books Llc, 2013

Synopsis

Dogen, a Zen master of early medieval Japan, wrote poems that have fascinated readers for centuries. In this volume, acclaimed poet Stephen Berg adapts and refashions more than sixty of them.

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About the Author

Stephen Berg is a poet as well as the founder and editor of The American Poetry Review. His honors and awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Pew Foundation. He is a recipient of the Frank O'Hara Prize. He has published numerous poetry collections and translations.

Review

We need poets like this. Mr Berg relentlessly describes what we would often prefer to forget but can't allow ourselves to forget. ..dazzling intimations of the possibility and mystery of a radically awakened consciousness. --New York Times

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Publisher
Millichap Books Llc
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0989091201
ISBN 13 
9780989091206
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
92