Waking to Snow - Softcover

Maclean, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4907359330 ISBN 13: 9784907359331

Verlag: Isobar Press, 2020

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Poems that gaze and listen: What is stillness? Can you hold emptiness?

Waking to Snow tracks twenty-five years of living in Kyoto. The poems are arranged roughly chronologically, in four sections, following the rhythms of the seasons, of Zen practice and sesshin retreats, along with poems about brief returns to Canada to visit aging parents, childhood memories, and academic and married life. Throughout, many poems attempt to decipher 'the lost languages' of nature: rice-seedlings, snails, chickadees, flowers, cicadas, heron, crickets, a bush warbler, an abandoned kitten, stars, trees, weather, wind, snow. At the very heart of the book is 'Still', a stunningly powerful sequence of eighteen poems describing the anguish of a stillbirth.

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Robert MacLean was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. He lived in Kyoto for twenty-five years, where he taught at Ritsumeikan University, meanwhile continuing his lifelong zazen practice. He has studied and sat with Robert Aitken R¿shi and J¿sh¿ Sasaki R¿shi, and latterly at T¿fukuji in Kyoto, where Keid¿ Fukushima R¿shi was abbot. He now lives in British Columbia with his wife and young daughter. His book Waking to Snow (Isobar Press, 2020) was chosen in 2021 by Lorna Crozier as one of her Poetry Picks for Canada's 23rd National Poetry Month.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Isobar Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 4907359330
• ISBN 13: 9784907359331
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 84
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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