Beneath a Single Moon Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry

by Johnson, Kent; Paulenich, Craig; Snyder, Gary

• ISBN13: 9781570626029
• ISBN10: 1570626022
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

Beneath a Single Moonis an extraordinary collection of the work of forty-five contemporary American poets-with over 250 poems and thirty essays on the influence of spiritual practice on the practice of poetry. Included are works by John Cage, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Jane Hirshfield, Andrew Schelling, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, and others.

Author Biography

Kent Johnson is a member of the faculty of Highland Community College in Freeport, Illinois, where he teaches English and Spanish. His writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Grand Street, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Sulfur. He is editor of Third Wave: The New Russian Poetry.

Craig Paulenich is an Assistant Professor of English and Writing Coordinator at Kent State University, Salem Campus. He was the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Award at the University of Pittsburgh in 1982. His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Kansas Review, South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, and Windhorse.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Introduction	1	(10)
Gary Snyder
Jane Augustine	11	(8)
Beginningless Beginning
from Cloud, Rock, Scroll
A Bracelet of Turquoise from Aguilar
Steve Benson	19	(9)
Disconstitution
from The Stand-in Under Duress
``Let's try to repeat ...''
Stephen Berg	28	(4)
Oblivion
Big Mood
No Word
To the Being We Are
Bob Boldman	32	(4)
Zen, Art, and Paradox
Eleven Haiku
Olga Broumas	36	(7)
Untitled Essay
Sweeping the Garden
from Lumens
Prayer With Martial Stance
Wedding Song
Mercy
John Cage	43	(5)
from Where'm'Now
from Themes & Variations
``There Is Not Much Difference Between the Two.'' (Suzuki Daisetz)
Toyama 1982
Alan Davies	48	(8)
Zen? Who Knows?
``The dialectical thinker ...''
``Desire,--- ...''
``Reality Rears Its Ugly Head''
Diane di Prima	56	(6)
Untitled Essay
Tassajara, 1969
I Ching
Trajectory
Letter to Jeanne (at Tassajara)
Visit to Katagiri Roshi
Patricia Donegan	62	(4)
from Haiku Studio
Half-Open
For Tu Fu's Bones
The Perfect Dialogue
Down to the Bone
Norman Fischer	66	(10)
Meditation and Poetry
Untitled Poem #37
The Tooting
On Thinking
Nelson Foster	76	(5)
Pieces from the Night
Lovers' Reunion at the Cavalier Motel
Guessing toward Clarity
Santa Rosa Plum
Dan Gerber	81	(4)
Two Clouds
from The Chinese Poems
The Way Back
Love for Instance
Margaret Gibson	85	(9)
The Glass Globe
A Ripple of Deer, A Metamorphosis of Bear, A Metaphor of Mountains
Making Salad
Beginner's Mind
In the Mountains
Affirmations
Allen Ginsberg	94	(13)
from Meditation and Poetics
Thoughts Sitting Breathing
``What would you do if you lost it?''
Returning to the Country for a Brief Visit
Why I Meditate
Susan Griffin	107	(5)
Torture
Born Into a World Knowing
Amnesia
Ocean
Sam Hamill	112	(12)
Sitting Zen, Working Zen, Feminist Zen
Gnostology
Helenic Triptych
A Dragon in the Clouds
``Thirty-one new yellow daffodils''
Jim Harrison	124	(9)
Everyday Life
After Reading Takahashi
Dogen's Dream
Counting Birds
Kobun
Walking
The Idea of Balance Is to Be Found in Herons and Loons
Michael Heller	133	(8)
From the Notes
Water, Heads, Hamptons
Photograph of a Man Holding His Penis
Today, Somewhat After Dante
Mythos of Logos
William Heyen	141	(8)
Pickerel
The Return
Redwings
Witness
In a Ch'ing Dynasty Painting
Chu Lien
If You Know Me at All
Jane Hirshfield	149	(8)
Poetry, Zazen, and the Net of Connection
Recalling a Sung Dynasty Landscape
In That World, the Angels Wear Fins
The Stone of Heaven
November, Remembering Voltaire
Inspiration
Mary Kean	157	(5)
Crisp Blue Shirt
Poetry
Reality
Parachute Sestina
Sphinx
Magpie
Robert Kelly	162	(9)
Going With the Poem
Maitreya
Melencolia
Objections to the Unsatisfactoriness of Cyclic Existence
Horse
David McKain	171	(5)
The Birdcarver
Coppers
Witching
Opening Day
Brushfire
Jackson Mac Low	176	(15)
Buddhism, Art, Practice, Polity
from Rinzai on the Self, ...
Mahakala
6 Gitanjali for Iris
Printout from ``The''
S. J. Marks	191	(5)
Cold Places
Losing Myself
To Go Through Life Is to Walk Across a Field
November Woods
Barbara Meier	196	(4)
Allow
Vertebral Mountains
Nuns
from Sonnets From the War Zones: Nicaragua
Dale Pendell	200	(7)
Some Reveries on Poetry as a Spiritual Discipline
Woodcutting
Mountains and Rivers
Anthony Piccione	207	(3)
Outside
Visit From a Friend
Opening the Cabin at Mid-Winter
Two Poems After Winter
A Small Prayer to Everything
This Day of Spring, We All Go Outside
Ice Fishing
Atoms
Trying to Read in My Study
George Quasha	210	(8)
A Virtual Account
Thomas's Secret Sayings
A Nod to the Numen
Further Fingers for the Further Hand
Morphic Resonance
Jed Rasula	218	(8)
Sound and Savor
from The Field & Garden of Circe
Vowels
The Hollow
The Table
Alexis Rotella	226	(2)
Thirteen Haiku
Steve Sanfield	228	(3)
A Cycle of Hoops for the First Snow
Twenty Hoops
Leslie Scalapino	231	(5)
from The Pearl
Andrew Schelling	236	(7)
Mounting the Poetry Vehicle
Storm Furrows
Armand Schwerner	243	(15)
Notes on a Life in Buddhism
Tablet XXIV
threads
Larry Smith	258	(3)
Waves
Fall Melon
Zen Garden
Seeing
Immersion
Gary Snyder	261	(10)
Riprap
from Hunting
Song of the Taste
Without
For Nothing
As for Poets
from Little Songs for Gaia
Surrounded by Wild Turkeys
Raven's Beak River at the End
The Bear Mother
At White River Roadhouse in the Yukon
Piute Creek
Will Staple	271	(5)
Who's a Buddhist?
Raven
nanao speaking
Neither the speaker nor the spoken, ...
Mudra
Charles Stein	276	(7)
Untitled Essay
from theforestforthetrees
Lucien Stryk	283	(14)
Death of a Zen Poet: Shinkichi Takahashi (1901--1987)
Translating Zen Poems
Misty Morning
Latest News
Willows
Nathaniel Tarn	297	(5)
Before the Snake
Retreat Toward the Spring
The Poet Who No Longer Made Use of Words
Entering Into This
from The Beautiful Contradictions
John Tarrant	302	(12)
Zen, Poetry, and the Great Dream Buddha
The Marriage Bundle
The Restoration of the World
Spell to Be Recited for Banishing Loneliness
Why the Gods Screw Things Up
Flute
Anne Waldman	314	(14)
Gender and the Wisdom Body: Secular/Sexual Musings
Makeup on Empty Space
Helping the Dreamer
Philip Whalen	328	(10)
About Writing and Meditation
All About Art & Life
Opening the Mountain, Tamalpais: 22:X:65
Japanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park in Spring
John Wolff	338	(5)
The Governors of Zuni (A Photograph)
Nursery Song for Two Sons
Mobius Landscape
Butterfly Effect
About the Editors	343	(1)
Credits	344	(7)
Index of Titles	351	(4)
Index of First Lines	355