The emergence of Buddhist American literature
By: edited by John Whalen-Bridge and Gary Storhoff ; foreword by Mazine Hong Kingston ; afterword by Charles Johnson.
Contributors: Whalen-Bridge, John, 1961-; Storhoff, Gary, 1947-
Series: Suny series in Buddhism and American culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press; SUNY Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781438426532
Subjects: American literature -- Buddhist authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- Buddhist influences; Buddhism in literature; Buddhism and literature -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literature as vehicle: transmission and transformation. The emptiness of patterned flux: Ernest Fenollosa's Buddhist essay, "The Chinese written character as a medium for poetry" / Jonathan Stalling; title: Gary Snyder's selective way to Cold Mountain: domesticating Han Shan / Yuemin He; title: John Giorno: Buddhism, poetry, and transgression / Marcus Boon; title: Buddhadharma and poetry without credentials / Michael Heller; title: Zen, Vajrayana, and the avant-garde: a pluralistic poetics. Finger pointing at the moon: Zen and the poetry of Philip Whalen / Jane Falk; title: Keeping the vision alive: the Buddhist stillpoint in the work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg / Erik Mortenson; title: Illumination through the cracks: the melting down of conventional socio-religious thought and practice in the work of Gary Snyder / Tom Lavazzi; title: Ginsberg, Trungpa, and the American poetic diamond vehicle: Anne Waldman re-works Vajrayana Buddhism / Jane Augustine; title: Widening the circle: Buddhism and American writers of color. Buddhism, Chinese religion, and the ceremony of writing: an interview with Maxine Hong Kingston / John Whalen-Bridge; title: A monkey bridge between two worlds: A Vietnamese Buddhist's crossing to America / Hanh Nguyen and R.C. Lutz; title: Opening the hand of thought: the meditative mind in Charles Johnson's Dr. King's refrigerator / Gary Storhoff.