Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death by Yoel Hoffmann

Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death

Yoel Hoffmann

352 pages first pub 1986 (editions) user-added

nonfiction philosophy poetry
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"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." -Tricycle: The Buddhist Rev...

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