Beneath a Single Moon Buddhism in

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.

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.

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

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Beneath a Single Moon Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry

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