Blue Cliff Record: Zen Echoes (Codhill Press)

Rothenberg, David

ISBN 10: 1930337035 / ISBN 13: 9781930337039

Published by Codhill Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blue Cliff Record: Zen Echoes (Codhill Press)
• Publisher: Codhill Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1930337035
• ISBN 13: 9781930337039
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

"Revisiting these 100 classic case studies, Rothenberg enlivens the process, and if he returns one to translations from the original, if his practice deepens another's practice, so much the better." –from the foreword by Sam Hamill, editor and translator of the Essential Chuang Tzu

"It is astonishing how thousand year old riddles are brought here to evocative poetic life. David Rothenberg converts them into contemporary verbal music, and arcanum, a profound secret, a mystery without intellectual solution." –Frederick Franck, author of The Zen of Seeing and The Buddha Eye

This vividly poetic version of the classic 12th century Zen treasurehouse, the Blue Cliff Record, breathes new life into its extraordinary collection of one hundred koans, ingeniously devised from contemplations, insight, and enlightenment.

"Rothenberg's adaptation of the Blue Cliff Record is that rare thing, a work of art that is also useful. It is a bracing as a dive into a cold spring." –Mark Rudman, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Poetry.

Poet, writer, philosopher, and musician, David Rothenberg is a contributing editor at Parabola magazine and founding editor of Terra Nova, the award-winning journal of deep ecology. The author of Hand's End and Sudden Music, his writing is featured in the anthologies The Best Spiritual Writing 1999 and The Soul of Nature.

About the Authors

David Rothenberg is a contributing editor to Parabola magazine and founding editor of Terra Nova, a highly praised journal of deep ecology. His writings on spirituality, philosophy, ecology, and music have been published in magazines ranging from The New Yorker and The Nation to Wired and Whole Earth. They are featured in The Best Spiritual Writing 1999 (HarperSanFrancisco) and The Soul of Nature (Penguin).

David Rothenberg is a contributing editor to Parabola magazine and author of Sudden Music and Hand's End. His writings on spirituality, philosophy, ecology, and music have been published in magazines ranging from Sierra and Whole Earth to Wired and The Nation, and are featured in The Best Spiritual Writing 1999 and The Soul of Nature.