Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth

Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth PDF Author: Stephen Berg
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556591527
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 47

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New edition of best-selling Asian title presents the poems of a renowned Zen master.

Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth

Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth PDF Author: Stephen Berg
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556591527
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 47

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Book Description
New edition of best-selling Asian title presents the poems of a renowned Zen master.

Wild Ways

Wild Ways PDF Author: Ikkyū
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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One hundred poems by a revered Japanese Zen master.

Zen-man Ikkyū

Zen-man Ikkyū PDF Author: James H. Sanford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Having Once Paused

Having Once Paused PDF Author: Ikkyū
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047205256X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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A volume of selected poems by Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun (1394–1481), translated into English

Ikkyū and the Crazy Cloud Anthology

Ikkyū and the Crazy Cloud Anthology PDF Author: Sonja Arntzen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922169402
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Arntzen's classic study and select translation of the Japanese medieval Zen poetry Crazy Cloud Anthology (Kyōunshū 狂雲集) by the Buddhist monk Ikkyū 一休 (1394-1481) is a carefully revised edition of the 1986 University of Tokyo Press edition which was issued as part of the Japanese series of the UNESCO collection of representative works. This Quirin Press Edition offers the following features: - Fully revised, updated, and expanded by the author. - Contains additional selected poems from Ikkyū's 一休 Kyōunshū 狂雲集 with text in Chinese script, and Japanese kundoku reading in Romanization. - Carefully typeset and proofed for typographical errors and inconsistencies. - Includes a new Preface and Afterword. Keywords: Zen poetry, Japanese -- Translations into English. Ikkyū 一休, 1394-1481. Buddhist monks -- Japan. Ikkyū Sōjun 一休宗純 (1394-1481), Zen monk and poet, is an unconventional figure in Japanese literary history. An eccentric personality, he raged at the corruption and hypocrisy of the wealthy Zen monastic system of his day. Defiantly living outside that institution for much of his life, his community included artists, actors, and women entertainers/ brothel girls. Many of his poems have sexual desire at their core, engaging with it as a kōan. Authentic Zen master as well as sensual lyricist, Ikkyū created some of the most original poetry in the entire Zen tradition. Translations from the Crazy Cloud Anthology, or Kyōunshū 狂雲集, Ikkyū's major collection of poetry in literary Chinese, form the core of this work. Ikkyū's biography and historical context of medieval Japan are outlined in the first part of the introduction. The analysis sections provide a portal for the reader to enter the world of the poems by demonstrating how Ikkyū's poetry produces experiences of Zen most often through the dialectical use of allusion. Ikkyū's non-conformism in response to a troubled, uncertain time will strike a sympathetic chord in the modern reader. Students of Japanese literature and religion, culture and history will find Ikkyū an engaging figure. And lovers of poetry will be inspired by his candour and free spirit. Originally published by University of Tokyo Press in 1986 as part of the Japanese series of the UNESCO collection of representative works, the present Quirin Press edition both augments and revises this seminal exploration of Ikkyū's key poetic output.

After Ikkyu and Other Poems

After Ikkyu and Other Poems PDF Author: Jim Harrison
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1570622183
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Jim Harrison's popular novels represent only part of his literary output—he has also been widely acclaimed for the "renegade genius" of his powerful, expressive verse, collected in several books such as The Theory and Practice of Rivers and Other Poems (Clark City Press, 1989). After Ikkyu is the first collection of Harrison's poems that are directly inspired by his many years of Zen practice.

Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth

Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth PDF Author: Stephen Berg
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320762
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 47

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When Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there. He in turn invited them to look for him in the sake parlors of the Pleasure Quarters. A Zen monk-poet-calligrapher-musician, he dared to write about the joys of erotic love, along with more traditional Zen themes. He was an eccentric and genius who dared to defy authority and despised corruption. Although he lived during times plagued by war, famine, rioting, and religious upheaval, his writing and music prevailed, influencing Japanese culture to this day. Stephen Berg is the Editor and founder of American Poetry Review. Also available by Stephen Berg Steel Cricket PB $16.00, 1-55659-075-X • CUSA New & Selected Poems PB $12.00, 1-55659-043-1 • CUSA

Zen Poetry

Zen Poetry PDF Author: Lucien Stryk
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802198244
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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From the editors of Zen Poems of China and Japan comes the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English. This collaboration between a Japanese scholar and an American poet has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selections, which span fifteen hundred years—from the early T’ang dynasty to the present day—include many poems that have never before been translated into English. Stryk and Ikemoto offer us Zen poetry in all its diversity: Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese masters, many haiku—the quintessential Zen art—and an impressive selection of poems by Shinkichi Takahashi, Japan’s greatest contemporary Zen poet. With Zen Poetry, Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto have graced us with a compellingly beautiful collection, which in their translations is pure literary pleasure, illuminating the world vision to which these poems give permanent expression.

Zen Sand

Zen Sand PDF Author: Victor Sogen Hori
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824865677
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 785

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Zen Sand is a classic collection of verses aimed at aiding practitioners of kôan meditation to negotiate the difficult relationship between insight and language. As such it represents a major contribution to both Western Zen practice and English-language Zen scholarship. In Japan the traditional Rinzai Zen kôan curriculum includes the use of jakugo, or "capping phrases." Once a monk has successfully replied to a kôan, the Zen master orders the search for a classical verse to express the monk’s insight into the kôan. Special collections of these jakugo were compiled as handbooks to aid in that search. Until now, Zen students in the West, lacking this important resource, have been severely limited in carrying out this practice. Zen Sand combines and translates two standard jakugo handbooks and opens the way for incorporating this important tradition fully into Western Zen practice. For the scholar, Zen Sand provides a detailed description of the jakugo practice and its place in the overall kôan curriculum, as well as a brief history of the Zen phrase book. This volume also contributes to the understanding of East Asian culture in a broader sense.

One Robe, One Bowl

One Robe, One Bowl PDF Author: Ryōkan
Publisher: Weatherhill
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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A sampling of poems from the Japanese hermit-monk, who belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics in China and Japan, evokes the beauty and pathos of human life.