Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse

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

PART ONE

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How He Writes

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(1)

What It Is Like to Read the Ancients

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(1)

Always in These Ancient Chinese Paintings

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(1)

On the Road to Buddhahood

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(3)

PART TWO

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After Thirty Years

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(1)

Another Kind of Travel

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(1)

Quiet and Seldom Seen

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(1)

North Is Nowhere

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(1)

A Strillness, Absolute, Profound

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(1)

How

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(1)

Where I Live

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(1)

Nothing Much

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(1)

When I Came to Judevine Mountain

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(1)

In the Ancient Tradition

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(1)

The Progress of Ambition

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(1)

Like the Clouds

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(1)

The Three Goals

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(1)

Bathroom Reading: After a Poem by Han Shan

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(3)

PART THREE

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After Reading Meng Chiao's "Seeing Off Master T'an"

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(1)

What Would It Be Like?

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(1)

Which of Them Sees More Clearly?

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(1)

No Trail

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(1)

Variation on a Theme by Another Recluse Who Also Thought about Ambition and the Self

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(1)

Alone and Lonely

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(1)

Three Decades

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(1)

The Story of Chi Mu Chian

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(1)

Another Lie

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(1)

As in Ryokan's Brushwork

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(1)

You False Masters of Serenity

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(1)

The Music of My Own Kind Too

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(1)

For Wang Wei

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(1)

Home

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(1)

An Unassuming Grandeur

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(1)

When I Get Depressed

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(1)

On My Fifty-eighth Birthday I Write Two Poems First One: What Keeps Me Here?

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(1)

Second One: I Am Still Here Because for Example

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(2)

The Story of Yu-ling

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(1)

Li Po and Wang Wei

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(1)

Be Glad

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(1)

How and Why You Should Be Circumspect about Your Inner Life

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(1)

Dilemma

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(1)

So Says Wang Wei

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(1)

How It Is

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(1)

What's The Difference?

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(1)

Bugs in a Bowl

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(1)

Such Self-Indulgence and Sloth!

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(1)

Ryokan Was a Beggar

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(4)

PART FOUR

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After Li Yi

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(1)

My Face

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(1)

My Old Woman

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(1)

After Reading a Poem from The Book of Songs

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(1)

Letter to Ni Tsan

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After Ryokan's Poem Called "White Hair"

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(1)

The Cycle of the Seasons

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(1)

All of Us

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(4)

PART FIVE

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Trying to Be Who I Already Am

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(1)

My Fate Is to Rebel

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(1)

Flawed Verse: After a Poem by Han Shan

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(1)

An Age of Academic Mandarins

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(1)

Note to Myself

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(1)

Which?

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(1)

Pao Chao and Now

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(1)

Teapots as Visions of How Poetry and the World Might Be

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(3)

PART SIX

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The Sixth of January

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(1)

Snowshoes on Judevine Mountain

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(1)

Laid Up in Bed

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(1)

What Happened Today: The Twentieth of January

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(1)

Haiku and Tanka for Shrike

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(1)

The First Green of Spring

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(1)

After a Walk on a Gray, Drizzling, Cold Spring Morning: The Thirtieth of April

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(1)

What I Did Today: The Sixth of May

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During the Warblers' Spring Migration, While Feeling Sorry for Myself for Being Struck Here, the Dooryard Birds Save Me from My Melancholy

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(1)

The End of Winter

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After Reading Ou-Yang Hsiu's Poem Called "Spring Walk to the Pavilion of Good Crops and Peace"

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(1)

What Good Does It Do?

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(1)

All Summer

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(1)

Ahimsa Next Time Maybe, or The Taoist Mountain Recluse Stands in His Summer Garden and Says to the Deerfly About to Bite Him

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(1)

The Young Woodchuck

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(1)

To a Friend

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(1)

Old Red Beard, My Friend

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(1)

Old Poet Refuses to Leave Home

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(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

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(1)

After Labor Day

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(1)

Harmonizing with Tu Fu's "Written on the Wall at Change's Hermitage"

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(1)

Autumn and Crickets

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(1)

For Owl Wing

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(1)

After Reading Po Chu-i's "Drunk, Facing Crimson Leaves"

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(1)

Stillness, O Stillness

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(1)

Melancholy Thoughts

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(1)

All the Raucous Birds of Summer

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(1)

Calling for Po Chu-i

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(1)

In Ryokan's Company

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(1)

Small Song of Praise at Christmastime for Chickadee

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(1)

A Winter Night

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(4)

PART SEVEN

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(6)

Who I Love

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(1)

Quoting T'ao Ch'ien

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(1)

On Hearing That These Poems Would Be Published in a Book

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(1)

What Issa Heard

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(3)

About the Author

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