Author: John Bull
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Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Author: Stephen Jaech
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio: A Nonprofit Literary Press
ISBN: 1545760373
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Rooted in the landscape and culture of the Pacific Northwest, Jaech found formative literary influences in Mother Goose, Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, Nelson and Beth Bentley, David Wagoner, and Richard Hugo. As an heir to the legacies of Blake and Neruda, Jaech’s images remain near the borderland between the real and surreal and seek to reach beyond the commonplace and into the unforeseen. Drawing clarity from ambivalence, Harmony River is the culmination of years of dedication to writing and teaching poetry, and to the epiphanic grace of making art. There's lots to laud in Harmony River, Stephen Jaech's new poetry collection, but what engages me most is Jaech's willingness to proffer an abundance of sensorial detail… the reader doesn't spectate; s/he participates. -Michael Darcher, Author of Odd Comfort and The Silver State Stories Stephen Jaech’s long-awaited collection… views with empathy and subtle wisdom… Where there is loss or pain… there is also redemption found glancingly in a slant of light or the daily changes of “Today, a sweet magnolia, tomorrow a field of snow.”…To sum up the book: “the wonder comes out/ from the trembling of his heart.” -Sherry Rind, The Storehouse of Wonder and Astonishment and Between States of Matter In Steve Jaech’s gem lode of a book… I had to sit back and absorb, to read random lines and savor parts of the original experience… -James Cervantes, author of From Mr. Bondo's Unshared Life and Sleepwalker's Songs: New & Selected Poems

Author: Beth Bentley
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio: A Nonprofit Literary Press
ISBN: 154575683X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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This long-awaited collection is the final manuscript assembled by poet Beth Bentley, who passed away in 2021 after a lifetime devoted to poetry. Her wide-ranging poems reflect on her deep love of art and philosophy, crystalline remembrances of family, and on the lives of cultural figures from history. They explore her Jewish heritage, her fierce feminism, and her perception of herself from an early age as an “outsider.” Missing Addresses evokes our losses, via age and happenstance, lending insight into the touchstones of our existence: our friends and families, our memories, our identities.

Author: Nelson Foster
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1645473104
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Storehouse of Treasures unearths wise and beautiful elements of Chan and Zen still little known in the West, revealing unexpected aspects of the tradition and new implications for practice. Since the dawn of Chan and Zen in medieval China and Japan, members of these schools have enlivened their teaching by creatively adopting and adapting terms, images, principles, poetry, and lore native to their societies. Unfortunately, so much of that cultural wealth has been “lost in translation” that Western practitioners have barely begun to discover and appreciate this extraordinarily rich legacy. In Storehouse of Treasures, second-generation American Zen teacher Nelson Foster makes a series of adventuresome forays into the trove of material laid up by the Dharma ancestors, bringing to light: Masters’ delight in playing with words, stories, and inherited Buddhist concepts, bending them to express the Dharma in inspired ways The powerful influence that Taoist and Confucian thought exerted in the formation of Chan and Zen The emphasis the two schools have laid on excellence of character as well as on profound awakening The experiential meaning and enduring importance to the tradition of ideals little associated with it today, like integrity, shame, and contentment How “knowing the tune” of a fellow student, a mentor, or a teacher of old lies at the heart of transmitting the Dharma Lifting to attention a diverse set of ancient yet still luminous Dharma gems, Foster urges their relevance and value to us as students of the Buddha Way and as citizens of a world increasingly fractious and imperiled.

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Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Shererry Mossaferer Rinind
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press
ISBN: 1545755108
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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Following natural history writings from Aristotle to Darwin, The Store-House of Wonder and Astonishment celebrates the combination of discovery and error passed along for nearly two thousand years. Into this mix comes the repressive influence of the Church on scientific thinking, followed by European colonial attitudes in the New World. But underlying the sense of superiority over people as disparate as Jews, the Irish, and indigenous tribes was the everlasting human yearning for wonder in the natural world with its creatures both real and imagined. Winner of the 2020 Eyelands International Book Award.

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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Charles Fenno Hoffman
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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