{"product_id":"crow-with-no-mouth-paperback","title":"Crow with No Mouth - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Berg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eccentric classic of Zen poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there. He in turn invited them to look for him in the sake parlors of the Pleasure Quarters. A Zen monk-poet-calligrapher-musician, he dared to write about the joys of erotic love, along with more traditional Zen themes. He was an eccentric and genius who dared to defy authority and despised corruption. Although he lived during times plagued by war, famine, rioting, and religious upheaval, his writing and music prevailed, influencing Japanese culture to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ikkyu scandalized the Zen community of his day and is likely to scandalize some readers even now--his short poems are simultaneously bawdy, abrupt, vulgar, and reverential... It is impossible not to love the velocity and variety of his verse.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stephen Berg is exactly the right poet to have translated these poems.\"--Hayden Carruth, \u003ci\u003eThe Hudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A deeply sensual man, Ikkyu had little patience for the fussiness of monastic life and ritual... What is especially appealing about Ikkyu's poetry is the way his sensuality infuses his Zen sensibility.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Berg\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-2014) was the founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso available by Stephen Berg\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteel Cricket\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePB $16.00, 1-55659-075-X - CUSA\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePB $12.00, 1-55659-043-1 - CUSA\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Berg, founding editor of American Poetry Review, is the author of two dozen books of poetry and translations. He is a professor of English at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43424042418243,"sku":"9781556591525","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store7994.com\/products\/crow-with-no-mouth-paperback","provider":"STORE 7994","version":"1.0","type":"link"}