Lucien Stryk's poetry is made of simple things -- frost on a
windowpane at morning, ducks moving across a pond, a neighbor's
fuss over his lawn -- set into language that is at once direct and
powerful.
Years of translating Zen poems and religious texts have helped give
Stryk a special sense of the particular, a feel for those details
which, because they are so much a part of our lives, seem to define
us. Stryk's poetry is neither an attempt to surpass these details
nor an attempt to give them significance. It is an activity that
exists among them, as ordinary -- yet as important -- as breath.
Stryk's poetic power rests in the sureness of plain speech and his
insistence on a direct, sympathetic attention to the world we
actually inhabit.
Collected Poems, a gathering of three decades of work, contains
nearly all Stryk's poems, including the best of his Zen
translations and a book-length section of new poetry. This book is
a revelation of the wonderful amid the familiar by a poet whose
language and vision have found their maturity.
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