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Shinkichi Takahashi is one of the truly great figures in world
poetry. In the classic Zen tradition of economy, disciplined
attention, and subtlety, Takahashi lucidly captures that which is
contemporary in its problems and experiences, yet classic in its
quest for unity with the Absolute. Lucien Stryk, Takahashi's fellow
poet and close friend, here presents Takahashi's complete body of
Zen poems in an English translation that conveys the grace and
power of Takahashi's superb art. "A first-rate poet . . .
[Takahashi] springs out of some crack between ordinary worlds: that
is, there is some genuine madness of the sort striven for in Zen."
-- Robert Bly; "We visit places in Takahashi that we once may have
visited in a dream, or in a moment too startling to record the
perception. . . . You need know nothing of Zen to become immersed
in his work. You will inevitably know something of Zen when you
emerge." -- Jim Harrison, American Poetry Review
Capturing in verse the ageless spirit of Zen, these 150 poems
reflect the insight of famed masters from the ninth century to the
nineteenth. The translators, in collaboration with Zen Master
Taigan Takayama, have furnished illuminating commentary on the
poems and arranged them so as to facilitate comparison between the
Chinese and Japanese Zen traditions. The poems themselves, rendered
in clear and powerful English, offer a unique approach to Zen
Buddhism, "compared with which," as Lucien Stryk writes, "the many
disquisitions on its meaning are as dust to living earth. We see in
these poems, as in all important religious art, East or West,
revelations of spiritual truths touched by a kind of divinity."
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