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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Pre Face
Mitsu Suzuki
Haiku
Soyen Shaku
En Route to America
Kyozan Joshu
“Whenever I hear …”
Derek Walcott
Love after Love
Norman Fischer
Sesshin Poem
A Model of the Universe
Lawson Fusao Inada
In/Vocation
Gary Snyder
How Poetry Comes to Me
Song of the Taste
Avocado
Saying Farewell at the Monastery after Hearing the Old Master Lecture on “Return to the Source”
As for Poets
Without
Earth Verse
Nanao Sakaki
Just Enough
Top Ten of American Poetry
“If you have time to chatter …”
Sugar Loaf Hill
Jack Kerouac
from The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
Orizaba Blues: 64th Chorus
Orlanda Blues: 24th Chorus
Bath Tub Thought
To Edward Dahlberg
Haiku
Albert Saijo
BODHISATTVA VOWS
Bob Kaufman
“… solitary thoughts on death and other illegal mysteries …”
“THE TRIP, DHARMA TRIP, SANGHA TRIP …”
Al Young
Third Street Promenade; Full Moon, Sunday Night, Santa Monica
Philip Whalen
“Off. …”
“Take dandelions first salad, …”
“Absolute …”
“hoist great blocks of language into place …”
“PET SHOP …“
“The End of the line. …”
SATURDAY
Joanne Kyger
“Never talk ahead …”
“Duncan’s class met last night …”
“It’s a great day …”
“Bird family …”
Dream
“Oh Man is the highest type of animal existing …”
The Empty Shrine Buddha
Patricia Donegan
Something Happened
Half-Open
“Tonight …”
Andrew Schelling
Run My Hand Under
Anne Waldman
Yum Yab
Rick Fields
The Very Short Sutra on the Meeting of the Buddha and the Goddess
Steve Sanfield
“Alone in the house …”
Gary Rosenthal
Wild Hooves
Gillian Coote
You
Jane Hirshfield
The Adamantine Perfection of Desire
Mitsu Suzuki
“Swiftly walking away …”
Jaan Kaplinksi
“Once I got a postcard …”
Maxine Hong Kingston
Journal entries
Garrett Hongo
Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi
Alan Chong Lau
wintermelon
bittermelon
eating habits of the old man
morning reflections over the miso soup
Russell Leong
What Does the Body Dream at Rest?
Threads
Paula Yup
The Things I Miss
Telly Wong
Loneliness
Mitsu Suzuki
“Summer butterfly …”
William R. LaFleur
Wedding Party
Steve Sanfield
Birthday Poem
Judyth Collin
The Layman’s Lament
John Tarrant
Han Shan in Santa Rosa
Caitlin O’Donnell
Footprints
Alex Marlowe
He Does Not Give the Reader One Line of Information
Jessemyn Meyerhoff
snow
the resounding echo of the buddha’s words
a million times
Nova Ray
The Last Flower
Jamie Meyerhoff
On Impermanence
Three Ravens
Allison Harris
Nothing Much
Will Staple
Shen Tao
Jordan Jones
Zen Baker
Gillian Coote
Tenzo’s Song
Al Robles
Ryokan the Crazy Snow Poet
Nina Wise
To Papaji
William Larsen
Surrender
Tom Greening
My Children Visit the Zendo
Sarah Arsone
A Father’s Poem
Miriam Sagan
“Winter burn”
Diana Levy
Honey
Dan Clurman
The Berkeley Marina at Dusk
To David
Susan Griffin
Born into a World Knowing
Yusef Komunyakaa
We Never Know
2527th Birthday of the Buddha
bell hooks
as they bury the dead
Thich Nhat Hanh
Please Call Me by My True Names
Ted Sexauer
The Well
The Ambivalent Nature of Healing
Poem for Têt
Claude AnShin Thomas
“As / the / soldiers …”
“A / bullet / slams …”
“Alone / with only …”
“Anyone can …”
Jim Cohn
On Non-Violence & Observation
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Witness Remains
Lorenzo Thomas
MMDCCXIII ½
Thulani Davis
Aria from X: “I would not tell you …”
Thich Tue Sy
Stone Walls
Hermit Thoughts
A Cup of Clear Water
Anonymous Tibetan nuns
“Looking through the window …”
“The fragrance of the lotus …”
“My country wasn’t sold, it was stolen …”
Patricia Donegan
Check Up
Gary Rosenthal
Ghetto Dokusan
Daigan Lueck
“You want to climb the steps …”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Millennium Cities
Ecolog
At Kenneth Rexroth’s
Kenneth Rexroth
“Water is always the same – …”
Void Only
Thomas Merton
“I am about to make my home …”
Czeslaw Milosz
Gift
Stephen Mitchell
Bamboo
Orchid and Rock
The Sense of Proportion
Robert Aitken
Gathas
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center Sangha
Gathas
Mitsu Suzuki
“Soft rain …”
Jane Hirshfield
Each Step
The Heart’s Counting Knows Only One
William Kistler
Standing Near the Ghats Along the Ganges
Kyoto I – Kinkaku-ji
Kyoto II – Ryoanji
Sam Hamill
“Wanting one good organic line, …”
Robert Duncan
“I have …”
For the Assignment of the Spirit
Robert Kelly
Sermon on Language
Holy Sonnet
from The Flowers of Unceasing Coincidence
Charles Stein
“My hat vanished. …”
Shinkichi Takahashi
Words
Gary Warner
Haiku
John Cage
from 45’ for a Speaker
Leslie Scalapino
“A man getting on a bus …”
Yoko Ono
Painting to Be Constructed in Your Head
Painting to Hammer a Nail
Smoke Painting
Takehisa Kosugi
Micro
Chironomy
Manodharma with Mr. Y.
Anima 1
Organic Music
Theater Music
Mieko Shiomi (Chieko)
Passing Music for a Tree
Disappearing Music for Face
Event for Late Afternoon
Mirror
Portrait Piece
Music for Two Players II
Allan Kaprow
“Suppose you telephone your own answering …”
Laurie Anderson
Wild White Horses
Amy Champ
from Vote for Sun
Steve Sanfield
Hoop
Manzan
“One minute of sitting, one inch of Buddha …”
Clark Coolidge
“ounce code orange …”
“listene …”
“by a I …”
Jackson Mac Low
“galactic anachronisms enslave assessments”
Twenties 3
“awakening”
Paul Reps
Poem Before Words
Richard Kostelanetz
A to Z
Kazuaki Tanahashi
Six characters from the Heart Sutra
Paul Reps
Poem Before Words
Paul Reps
Poem Before Words
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Reverence …”
Ngodup Paljor
The Way
Peter Bailey
“Don’t …”
Kazuaki Tanahashi
“Does the brush paint, or does the ink? Or does the paper, …”
“Can five hundred paintings be created in one stroke?”
“One-line poem? Why not one-word poem?”
Paul Reps
Poem Before Words
Shunryu Suzuki
Beginner’s Mind
Lew Welch
“Step out onto the Planet. …”
Peter Bailey
Practice
Lawson Fusao Inada
A Nice Place
Ness
In So Doing
Clearing
Keep Quiet
Just Made It
The List
Forest Family
Pledge
Jonathan Greene
Ruts
Hut Poem #1
Ko Un
Walking down a mountain
Ripples
Asking the Way
Baby
Annihilation
Atanu Dey
The Buddha and I
Peter Levitt
The Measure
from 100 Butterflies
Steve Sanfield
“I like my poems short …”
A Poem for Those of You Who Are Sometimes Troubled by Barking Dogs and Low Flying Jets
Concern
Diane di Prima
“black & white cat …”
“after months of sitting …”
“the pine shadow falls on the tent wall …”
Three “Dharma Poems”
I Fail as a Dharma Teacher
Buddhist Ruminations
Chögyam Trungpa
Haiku
Sakyong Mipham
Snow Fell Twice, the Sun Always Shone
Allen Ginsberg
“Sitting crosslegged on a wooden floor …”
“The moon in the dewdrop is the real moon …”
Selected American Sentences and Haiku
Manhattan May Day Midnight
New Stanzas for “Amazing Grace”
Taigen Dan Leighton
“Giving Buddha to all beings is giving to oneself. …”
All of Us So Close to Buddha
Mariane Baggers Eriksen
“I dropped something. I picked it up …”
Hester G. Storm
Bop for Laotzu
Adam Yauch
Bodhisattva Vow
The Update
Peter Coyote
“Do you think …”
Butch Hancock
My Mind’s Got a Mind of Its Own
Circumstance
Susan Griffin
Summer Night
Bob Kaufman
“… there is a silent beat in between the drums. …”
Thomas Merton
from In Silence
Arthur Sze
The Silence
Ice Floe
Patricia Y. Ikeda
Wood
Wild Iris
Ok-Koo Kang Grosjean
Iris
Were I a Flower
Steve Sanfield
Hoop
Ok-Koo Kang Grosjean
Garden
Wind
Lew Welch
Redwood Haiku
Difficulty Along the Way
Small Sentence to Drive Yourself Sane
Large Little Circle
“I saw myself …”
Springtime in the Rockies, Lichen
James Laughlin
What Is Hoped for
Dainin Katagiri
Peaceful Life
“You are nearly as old as the number of years it has been …”
Seung Sahn
“Good and Bad are eminent teachers. …”
“The mountain sinks into the sea …”
Taizan Maezumi
“Untransmittable & moving eastward. …”
Etsudo Nishikawa
“Round, round, more round than the moon; …”
Bernard Tetsugen Glassman
Ascending the Mountain
Tenshin Reb Anderson
To Bodhidharma
To My First Teacher
Sojun Mel Weitsman and Zen Center Sangha
Mondo
Michael Wenger
Zen Corners
Jaan Kaplinski
“Shunryu Suzuki …”
Amy Uyematsu
Tea
Lone Pine
Arthur Sze
Fauve
Wang Wei
Deer Park
Wendy Johnson
River Meditation
Robert Sund
The Frog I Saved from a Snake
Two Poems for the Good Given
Robinson Jeffers
Carmel Point
Jim Cohn
Jemez Mountains Meditation
Anita Barrows
“How many million years before wood turns to stone? …”
John Tarrant
The Hula Dancers Dance the Hula, Kilauea the Caldera
Antler
Trees Seen Now
One Breath
David Tokuyu Reid-Marr
Zen Mountain Center
Cedar
Live Oak
Condor
Kenji Miyazawa
Dawn
The Politicians
Some Views Concerning the Proposed Site of a National Park
Antler
American History in Context
Nanao Sakaki
North America
Let’s Eat Stars
Gary Snyder
Smokey the Bear Sutra
Denise Lassaw-Paljor
Counting Breaths
For a Moose
Jim Harrison
“Not here and now but now and here. …”
Dan Gerber
Afterwords
Rebecca Radner
I Want to Write like a Postcard
Like That
Keith Abbott
The Illusion Collector, Age 37
Haiku
Gary Gach
Inflight
Jerry Kilbride
Haiku
Wes “Scoop” Nisker
Haiku
Whatever
Brigid Lowry
In the World
Lisa Cullen
Reasons to Meditate
Mary Oliver
Going to Walden
Wendy Lewis
It’s Like This
Cid Corman
“Learn to live …”
Ngodup Paljor
“Robert Frost and I …”
“Exhausted by jogging …”
“The wish of my Amala …”
“I woke up early …”
“Cars stuck in the snow …”
M. C. Richards
Snow
Eve Merriam
Summer’s End
John Mueller
Rubber Eraser
Thich Nhat Hanh
Journey
Existence
Appendix I
Mind Writing Slogans
Appendix II
Mind Writing: Exercises in Poetic Candor
Appendix III
Interbeing
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Author Index
About the Publisher
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