Goldberg, author of two popular Zen-inspired writing guides (Wild
Mind, 1990; Writing Down the Bones, 1986), tells in simple,
dead-honest prose the story of her "awakening" to writing and to
life. "Americans," Goldberg says, "see writing as a way to break
through their own inertia and become awake, to connect with their
deepest selves." This way works, she insists, but "it is hard. It
is a long quiet highway." Goldberg's highway began on Long Island,
where her father ran a bar, her mother went on diets, and the
future author had the good fortune to have one Mr. Clemente in high
school. One clay Mr. Clemente turned off the lights and asked
Goldberg and the rest of her class to listen to the rain: "That one
moment carried me a long way into my life." After attending George
Washington University, Goldberg went to graduate school in New
Mexico. There, while teaching an unruly class of Mexican and Native
American kids, she felt her heart open - an experience that nothing
in her study of literature had prepared her for. She headed for the
Lama Foundation, a nonsectarian spiritual center, and then to
Boulder, where she studied poetry with Allen Ginsberg and took
Buddhist vows. Finally, she married and moved to Minneapolis, where
she met Katagiri Roshi, the slight, unpretentious Zen teacher who
was to have a defining impact on her life. Katagiri told her that
writing could take her as far as Zen could if she made her practice
deep enough, and he helped her to see that, for her, the direct,
bare-bones way was best. A resonant book that will appeal to, and
likely help, all who believe that life can be a spiritual
adventure. One gripe: The cadence of Goldberg's writing gets
monotonous. Isn't it possible to be "awake" and yet experiment with
more intricate prose structures? (Kirkus Reviews)
From the bestselling author of Writing Down the Bones comes a
luminous spiritual autobiography for readers of Thomas Moore's Care
of the Soul. "Goldberg's writing offers a path, a highway, to that
elusive place deep wi thin our own lives where divinity
sits".--Thomas Moore.
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