Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
10 best books like Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart (Patricia Donegan): Basho: The Complete Haiku, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms, Mountains and Rivers Without End, Bellocq's Ophelia, How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003, Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan, Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read & Write Poetry
| Author | Matsuo Bashō |
| ISBN | 4770030630 |
Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese Masters.
Yet despite his stature, Bashos...
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060929480 |
A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays.
Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes...
| Author | Ron Padgett |
| ISBN | 0915924609 |
I own at least one book of poetic forms and have used several. I've also looked up individual forms online. This handbook edited by Ron Padgett is the best I've seen. I understand there can be problems getting permissions to reprint poems. This publisher worked that out. There is nothing more frustrating...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 1887178570 |
When this landmark work was first published, Gary Snyder was honored with the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Orion Societys John Hay Award. Publishers Weekly named Mountains and Rivers Without End one of the best books of 1996. On April 8, 1956, Gary Snyder...
| Author | Natasha Trethewey |
| ISBN | 1555973590 |
Selected as a "2003 Notable Book" by the American Library Association
In the early 1900s, E.J. Bellocq photographed prostitutes in the red-light district of New Orleans. His remarkable, candid photos inspired Natasha Trethewey to imagine the life of Ophelia, the subject of Bellocq's Ophelia,...
| Author | Dōgen |
| ISBN | 1590302915 |
In the thirteenth century, Zen master Dogen—perhaps the most significant of all Japanese philosophers, and the founder of the Japanese Soto Zen sect—wrote a practical manual of Instructions for the Zen Cook . In drawing parallels between preparing meals for the Zen monastery and spiritual training,...
| Author | Robert Hass |
| ISBN | 0613339983 |
American readers have been fascinated since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion....
| Author | Jean Valentine |
| ISBN | 0819567132 |
Since the 1965 publication of her first book, Dream Barker, selected for the Yale Younger Poets Award, Jean Valentine has published eight collections of poetry to critical acclaim. Spare and intensely-felt, Valentine's poems present experience as only imperfectly graspable. This volume gathers...
| Author | Ryōkan |
| ISBN | 1590309820 |
Ryokan (1758–1831) is, along with Dogen and Hakuin, one of the three giants of Zen in Japan. But unlike his two renowned colleagues, Ryokan was a societal dropout, living mostly as a hermit and a beggar. He was never head of a monastery or temple. He liked playing with children. He had no dharma heir....
| Author | Sage Cohen |
| ISBN | 1582975574 |
Writing Poetry for Everyday Life
"Poetry is just the evidence of life," says Leonard Cohen. "If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
You don't need an advanced degree to reap the rewards of a rich poetic life–writing poetry is within the reach of everyone. Poet Sage...
| Author | Yoel Hoffmann |
| ISBN | 0804831793 |
"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pity, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." —Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Although the consciousness of...
| Author | William J. Higginson |
| ISBN | 4770014309 |
"The Haiku Handbook" is the first book to give the reader everything needed to begin writing or teaching haiku. It presents haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and five other languages on an equal footing with Japanese poets. Not only are the four great Japanese masters of the haiku...
| Author | Cor van den Heuvel |
| ISBN | 0393321185 |
Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern haiku, honoring a genre of poetry that celebrates...
| Author | Richard Wright |
| ISBN | 0385720246 |
"As good a haiku poet as this country has ever produced."--Seattle Weekly
Like all great writers, Richard Wright never failed to create works of breathtaking originality, depth, and beauty. With Native Son he gave us Bigger Thomas, still one of the most provocative and controversial characters...
| Author | Peter Washington |
| ISBN | 1400041287 |
Simple yet capable of great complexity, the haiku is a tightly structured verse form that has a remarkable power to distill the essence of a moment keenly perceived. For centuries confined to a small literary elite in Japan, the writing of haiku is now practiced all over the world by those who are fascinated...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1593761074 |
For five decades Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose. He is an award-winning writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his chosen place and the rooms and porches of his family's home. In Given — his first collection of new poems in ten years now in paperback — the...
| Author | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| ISBN | 0679444696 |
The poet feels nature, life, so deeply he is overwhelmed. He sometimes invents words and grammar to express his ecstasy. I just love Hopkins for this, for his passion.
Two of my favorite poems:
Pied Beauty
Glory be to G-d for dappled things-
For skies of couple-colour...
Shikantaza--or "just sitting"--is one of the simplest, most subtle forms of meditation, and one of the most easily misunderstood. This peerless volume brings together a wealth of writings, from the Buddha himself to Bodhidharma and Dogen and many of modern Zen Buddhism's most influential masters,...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0807068985 |
Never afraid to shed the pretense of academic poetry, never shy of letting the power of an image lie in unadorned language, Mary Oliver offers us poems of arresting beauty that reflect on the power of love and the great gifts of the natural world. Inspired by the familiar lines from William Wordsworth,...
| Author | Rita Dove |
| ISBN | 0143106430 |
Penguin proudly presents an unparalleled survey of the best poems of the past century. Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U .S. Poet Laureate, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years. Selecting from the canon of American poetry throughout...
