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ISBN | 9781067018900 |
Format | PaperBack |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2024 |
Bib. Info | 198p. |
Categories | Literature |
Product Weight | 250 gms. |
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Slender Volumes locates the cypress trees of Buddhist folklore in Onehunga and the teachings of the Zen tradition along its foreshore. Elaborating on koans collected by poet-philosopher Eihei Dogen, each poem fastens centuries and distances together to find insight in everyday things: seagulls on a handrail, insects drinking from a pan of water, sump oil glistening in a white bucket. Clear-sighted and compassionate, Slender Volumes recovers what it means to be intimate with our surroundings and to meet the particulars of our world with perfect curiosity. (Poetry)