Norman Fischer

Broschiertes Buch

Selected Poems

Beschreibung

Try Selected Poems by Norman Fischer in small pieces, koanstyle or parablelength, yet before you know it, his questions on mind, existence, compassion branch voluminously by location and torque the decades. The books meet each other as movements, variations.

Autor

A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, Norman Fischer is a poet and essayist. He has been practicing as a Zen Buddhist priest for thirty five years, and is one of the senior Zen teachers in America. The latest of his more than twentyfive poetry and prose titles are Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion (prose, Poetics Series, University of Alabama Press), Conflict (poetry, Chax Press), The Strugglers (poetry, Singing Horse Press), and Magnolias All At Once (poetry, Singing Horse). In 2000 he retired as coabbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, one of the largest Buddhist organizations in the West, and founded The Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org), an international network of Buddhist groups and social projects.His latest Buddhist title is Training in Compassion (Shambhala). Norman Fischer lives on a cliff near Muir Beach California with his wife Kathie, also a Zen priest. Their two sons live in Brooklyn.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chax Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781946104311
• ISBN-10: 1946104310
• Artikelnr.: 63429793