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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Weiss, Paul, 1947- author.

Moonlight leaning against an old rail fence : approaching the dharma as poetry / Paul Weiss.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-58394-945-0 (paperback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-58394-946-7 (ebook)

1. Buddhist poetry, American. I. Title.

PS3573.E41625M66 2015

811’.6—dc23

2014025225