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Experience - Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion (Paperback)
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Experience - Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion (Paperback)
Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series
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By what narrow path is the ineffable silence of Zen cleft by the
scratch of a pen? The distilled insights of forty years, Norman
Fischer's Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion is
a collection of essays by Zen master Fischer about experimental
writing as a spiritual practice. Raised in a Conservative Jewish
family, Fischer embraced the twin practices of Zen Buddhism and
innovative poetics in San Francisco in the early 1970s. His work
includes original poetry, descriptions of Buddhist practice,
translations of the Hebrew psalms, and eclectic writings on a range
of topics from Homer to Heidegger to Kabbalah. Both Buddhist priest
and participant in avant-garde poetry's Language movement, Fischer
has limned the fertile affinities and creative contradictions
between Zen and writing, accumulating four decades of rich insights
he shares in Experience. Fischer's work has been deeply enriched
through his collaborations with leading rabbis, poets, artists,
esteemed Zen Buddhist practitioners, Trappist monks, and renowned
Buddhist leaders, among them the Dalai Lama. Alone and with others,
he has carried on a deep and sustained investigation into the
intersection of writing and consciousness as informed by
meditation. The essays in this artfully curated collection range
across divers, fascinating topics such as time, the Heart Sutra,
God in the Hebrew psalms, the supreme "uselessness" of art making,
"late work" as a category of poetic appreciation, and the subtle
and dubious notion of "religious experience." From the theoretical
to the revealingly personal, Fischer's essays, interviews, and
notes point toward a dramatic expansion of the sense of religious
feeling in writing. Readers who join Fischer on this path in
Experience can discover how language is not a description of
experience, but rather an experience itself: shifting, indefinite,
and essential.
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