What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop (original 1998; edition 1998)

by Gary Gach, Peter Coyote (Foreword)

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What Book!? is a lively anthology of modern mindful poetry, featuring 330 selections from 125 contributors. Also included are ""mind-writing exercises"" by Allen Ginsberg and a meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh.Themes include love, nature, pacifism and violence, the avant-garde, family, silence, and song. The contents include original work and translations; performance art and conceptual art; lyrics, arias, and blues; picture poems and calligraphy; prose poetry and sonnets; haiku; meditations and sutras; journal entries; bucolics; jeremiads; postmodernism; and other artifacts from the… (more)

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Title:	What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
Authors:	Gary Gach
Other authors:	Peter Coyote (Foreword)
Info:	Parallax Press (1998), Edition: First Edition, Paperback, 272 pages
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... no sight no sound no taste no touch no smell ...

— The Heart Sutra

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What Book!? is a lively anthology of modern mindful poetry, featuring 330 selections from 125 contributors. Also included are ""mind-writing exercises"" by Allen Ginsberg and a meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh.Themes include love, nature, pacifism and violence, the avant-garde, family, silence, and song. The contents include original work and translations; performance art and conceptual art; lyrics, arias, and blues; picture poems and calligraphy; prose poetry and sonnets; haiku; meditations and sutras; journal entries; bucolics; jeremiads; postmodernism; and other artifacts from the

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