Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry

Description

Beneath a Single Moon is an extraordinary collection of the work of forty-five contemporary American poets-with over 250 poems and thirty essays on the influence of spiritual practice on the practice of poetry. Included are works by John Cage, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Jane Hirshfield, Andrew Schelling, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, and others.

Kent Johnson is a member of the faculty of Highland Community College in Freeport, Illinois, where he teaches English and Spanish. His writing has appeared in theAmerican Poetry Review, Grand Street, Michigan Quarterly Review,andSulfur.He is editor ofThird Wave The New Russian Poetry. Craig Paulenich is an Assistant Professor of English and Writing Coordinator at Kent State University, Salem Campus. He was the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Award at the University of Pittsburgh in 1982. His poems have appeared inThe Georgia Review, Kansas Review, South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry,andWindhorse.

"This intelligent anthology provides compelling evidence of a continuing preoccupation in American thought, from Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman to the poets here represented. It is the human search for locating home, transcendent yet literal, always here even if nowhere. The complexly common voices of these writers are an insistent call to our own need, to let go of our 'lives' and so live them."-Robert Creeley