A Drifting Boat
Subtitle: An Anthology of Chinese Zen Poetry
Contributors: Dennis Maloney (Editor)
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Published: June 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781877727375
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Chinese Poetry; Poetry; Chinese; Anthologies (multiple authors); Poetry / General; Translations into English; Zen poetry, Chinese
First sentence: Scholar translator of holy Sanskrit texts, ragged mountain wildmen, nuns and monks, retired civil servants, scholar-officials of the Emperor of China, residents of humble mountain monasteries, Buddhist prelates whose prestige and moral force often made them rivals in secular power to those officials themselves: poets of every century from the sixth to the twentieth are to be found here, clarifying in bright and vibrant poetic lines the transmission of a single ideal.