What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
by Gary Gach 
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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 show more and sutras; journal entries; bucolics; jeremiads; postmodernism; and other artifacts from the show lessTags
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Gary Gach has been a student of Buddhism for 40 years
Gary Gach is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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- Original publication date
- 1998
- Epigraph
- ... no sight no sound no taste no touch no smell ...
— The Heart Sutra - First words
- " Monastery gate ... "
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)" ... As thin as this sheet of paper is, it contains everything in the universe in it. "
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- English
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- ISBNs
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