Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse

by Budbill, David Y.

• ISBN13: 9781556591334
• ISBN10: 1556591330
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

New England mountain recluse's poems reminiscent of those of the great Chinese and Taoist poet-sages.

Table of Contents

PART ONE	5	(6)
How He Writes	5	(1)
What It Is Like to Read the Ancients	6	(1)
Always in These Ancient Chinese Paintings	7	(1)
On the Road to Buddhahood	8	(3)
PART TWO	11	(16)
After Thirty Years	11	(1)
Another Kind of Travel	12	(1)
Quiet and Seldom Seen	13	(1)
North Is Nowhere	14	(1)
A Strillness, Absolute, Profound	15	(1)
How	16	(1)
Where I Live	17	(1)
Nothing Much	18	(1)
When I Came to Judevine Mountain	19	(1)
In the Ancient Tradition	20	(1)
The Progress of Ambition	21	(1)
Like the Clouds	22	(1)
The Three Goals	23	(1)
Bathroom Reading: After a Poem by Han Shan	24	(3)
PART THREE	27	(32)
After Reading Meng Chiao's "Seeing Off Master T'an"	27	(1)
What Would It Be Like?	28	(1)
Which of Them Sees More Clearly?	29	(1)
No Trail	30	(1)
Variation on a Theme by Another Recluse Who Also Thought about Ambition and the Self	31	(1)
Alone and Lonely	32	(1)
Three Decades	33	(1)
The Story of Chi Mu Chian	34	(1)
Another Lie	35	(1)
As in Ryokan's Brushwork	36	(1)
You False Masters of Serenity	37	(1)
The Music of My Own Kind Too	38	(1)
For Wang Wei	39	(1)
Home	40	(1)
An Unassuming Grandeur	41	(1)
When I Get Depressed	42	(1)
On My Fifty-eighth Birthday I Write Two Poems First One: What Keeps Me Here?	43	(1)
Second One: I Am Still Here Because for Example	43	(2)
The Story of Yu-ling	45	(1)
Li Po and Wang Wei	46	(1)
Be Glad	47	(1)
How and Why You Should Be Circumspect about Your Inner Life	48	(1)
Dilemma	49	(1)
So Says Wang Wei	50	(1)
How It Is	51	(1)
What's The Difference?	52	(1)
Bugs in a Bowl	53	(1)
Such Self-Indulgence and Sloth!	54	(1)
Ryokan Was a Beggar	55	(4)
PART FOUR	59	(12)
After Li Yi	59	(1)
My Face	60	(1)
My Old Woman	61	(1)
After Reading a Poem from The Book of Songs	62	(1)
Letter to Ni Tsan	63	(2)
After Ryokan's Poem Called "White Hair"	65	(1)
The Cycle of the Seasons	66	(1)
All of Us	67	(4)
PART FIVE	71	(10)
Trying to Be Who I Already Am	71	(1)
My Fate Is to Rebel	72	(1)
Flawed Verse: After a Poem by Han Shan	73	(1)
An Age of Academic Mandarins	74	(1)
Note to Myself	75	(1)
Which?	76	(1)
Pao Chao and Now	77	(1)
Teapots as Visions of How Poetry and the World Might Be	78	(3)
PART SIX	81	(34)
The Sixth of January	81	(1)
Snowshoes on Judevine Mountain	82	(1)
Laid Up in Bed	83	(1)
What Happened Today: The Twentieth of January	84	(1)
Haiku and Tanka for Shrike	85	(1)
The First Green of Spring	86	(1)
After a Walk on a Gray, Drizzling, Cold Spring Morning: The Thirtieth of April	87	(1)
What I Did Today: The Sixth of May	88	(1)
During the Warblers' Spring Migration, While Feeling Sorry for Myself for Being Struck Here, the Dooryard Birds Save Me from My Melancholy	89	(1)
The End of Winter	90	(1)
After Reading Ou-Yang Hsiu's Poem Called "Spring Walk to the Pavilion of Good Crops and Peace"	91	(1)
What Good Does It Do?	92	(1)
All Summer	93	(1)
Ahimsa Next Time Maybe, or The Taoist Mountain Recluse Stands in His Summer Garden and Says to the Deerfly About to Bite Him	94	(1)
The Young Woodchuck	95	(1)
To a Friend	96	(1)
Old Red Beard, My Friend	97	(1)
Old Poet Refuses to Leave Home	98	(1)
One Summer Afternoon Many Years Ago While Visiting My Friend Joel, Who Is Dead Now, at His House Which We Called The Depressive Poet's Rehabilitation Center, I Wrote this Poem	99	(1)
After Labor Day	100	(1)
Harmonizing with Tu Fu's "Written on the Wall at Change's Hermitage"	101	(1)
Autumn and Crickets	102	(1)
For Owl Wing	103	(1)
After Reading Po Chu-i's "Drunk, Facing Crimson Leaves"	104	(1)
Stillness, O Stillness	105	(1)
Melancholy Thoughts	106	(1)
All the Raucous Birds of Summer	107	(1)
Calling for Po Chu-i	108	(1)
In Ryokan's Company	109	(1)
Small Song of Praise at Christmastime for Chickadee	110	(1)
A Winter Night	111	(4)
PART SEVEN	115	(6)
Who I Love	115	(1)
Quoting T'ao Ch'ien	116	(1)
On Hearing That These Poems Would Be Published in a Book	117	(1)
What Issa Heard	118	(3)
About the Author	121