Full name: One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan

Authors: Ryokan, John Stevens Year: 1977 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Poetry, Religion Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780834805705 0834805707

The hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration of nature and the natural life also bring to mind his younger American contemporary, Thoreau. Ryokan's poetry is that of the mature Zen master, its deceptive simplicity revealing an art that surpasses artifice. Although Ryokan was born in eighteenth-century Japan, his extraordinary poems, capturing in a few luminous phrases both the beauty and the pathos of human life, reach far beyond time and place to touch the springs of humanity. Similar books: Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf by Ryokan Call Me By My True Names by Thich Nhat Hanh The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain by Han-Shan One Hundred Poems from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth Japanese Death Poems by Yoel Hoffmann The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Actual Air by David Berman Spring and All by William Carlos Williams Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye The Lives of the Heart by Jane Hirshfield The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder The Art of Blessing the Day by Marge Piercy A Cry Like a Bell by Madeleine L'Engle Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke Dream Work by Mary Oliver Red Bird by Mary Oliver