Experience - Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion

Informationen zum Autor Norman Fischer is a former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center and the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation. He is the author of twenty books of poetry, criticism, and theology, among them the poetry collections The Strugglers , I Was Blown Back , Success , and Questions/Places/Voices/Seasons and the prose works Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong , Sailing Home: Using Homer's "Odyssey" to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls , Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms , and Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up . Klappentext By what narrow path is the ineffable silence of Zen cleft by the scratch of a pen? The distilled insights of forty years! Norman Fischer's Experience is a collection of essays about experimental writing as a spiritual practice. Fischer's work has been deeply enriched through his collaborations with leading rabbis! poets! artists! Zen Buddhist practitioners! Trappist monks! and Buddhist leaders. Zusammenfassung Norman Fischer's Experience is the fruit of forty years of thinking on experimental writing and its practice! both as an investigation of reality and as a religious endeavor! by a major figure in contemporary Zen Buddhist practice and theology.

Product details

• Authors: Norman Fischer, Norman Fisher
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780817358280
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5828-0
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic; Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies