Robert Maclean

Broschiertes Buch

Wintermoon

Beschreibung

In Wintermoon Robert MacLean distils twenty-five years of living in Kyoto, Japan, into a single seasonal cycle seen through the radically minimalist lens of haiku. Here are 119 precise instants of focus, divided into eleven sequences - 'stepping stones / leading to / a waterfall'. Each set of poems arrives at an awareness different from the one with which the set began, and the book as a whole maps a transformative journey filled with Zen practice, loneliness, university teaching, questionings, cultural acclimation, intimate encounters with nature, romance and marriage, and the death of parents and of an unborn child. Each sequence is a record of a series of acute and vital perceptions of the world.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Isobar Press
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 119g
• ISBN-13: 9784907359393
• ISBN-10: 490735939X
• Artikelnr.: 63733373