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class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"\u003eIn this deeply personal collection, Merton’s quiet prayers and contemplative writings are paired with his own simple, evocative drawings—offering a window into the hidden life of a Trappist monk whose heart burned with devotion, solitude, and a profound search for the divine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"\u003eFar from formal theology, these pages reveal Merton’s most tender and human side: raw reflections, silent dialogues with the sacred, and sketches born from moments of stillness. 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class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"\u003eImmerse yourself in the timeless wisdom of Sufi mysticism with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274 r-36ujnk\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"\u003eRumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"\u003e, a paperback collection translated by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, drawing from the works of the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi. 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It supports nurturing a contemplative life through thoughtful engagement with its verses, helping individuals develop habits that promote spiritual wholeness by aligning daily actions with deeper values of connection and growth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"\u003eThis volume serves as a reliable companion for integrating Sufi 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class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"\u003eExplore the foundational principles of Taoism with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274 r-36ujnk\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"\u003eTao Te Ching by Lao Tzu: Royal Collector's Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"\u003e, a hardcover translation by James Legge that delves into this philosophical and religious classic, consisting of 81 brief chapters known for their poetic and paradoxical style. 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This is a book for anyone who loves poetry that reaches toward the ultimate questions, who seeks to understand existence at its deepest level, who is willing to sit with difficulty and mystery. It's a reminder that the greatest poetry does not comfort but transforms, and that the human task is not to escape our condition but to embrace it fully, to turn our mortality into song.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRainer Maria Rilke's masterpiece and greatest achievement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTen elegies on angels, death, love, transformation, and human existence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten over a decade (1912-1922) at Duino Castle and Château Muzot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDual-language edition with facing-page German and English translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eC.F. MacIntyre's acclaimed translation with introduction and notes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProfound meditation on mortality, praise, and the courage to affirm existence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a Bohemian-Austrian poet widely regarded as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets. His work explores themes of solitude, love, death, and the search for the divine with unparalleled depth and beauty. \u003cem\u003eDuino Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eDuineser Elegien\u003c\/em\u003e), begun in 1912 and completed in 1922 during the same extraordinary creative burst that produced the \u003cem\u003eSonnets to Orpheus\u003c\/em\u003e, represents the culmination of Rilke's poetic and spiritual quest. Rilke considered them his greatest work, and they have become recognized as one of the supreme achievements of modern poetry—difficult, beautiful, and utterly essential for anyone seeking to understand what it means to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/strong\u003e Readers seeking profound existential and mystical poetry, students of Rilke and German literature, those drawn to poetry that grapples with ultimate questions, anyone interested in angels, death, and transformation, readers who love dual-language editions and translation, admirers of modern European poetry and existentialism, seekers exploring mortality, love, and the affirmation of existence, students of 20th-century poetry and philosophy, those interested in the intersection of poetry and the sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUniversity of California Press dual-language paperback edition. Rilke's greatest achievement—offering ten elegies on what it means to be human, to love, to die, and to transform suffering into praise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rainer M. Rilke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46595588915331,"sku":"BS-3QC-229235","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/1583\/7571\/files\/duino_elegies_rilke_book_cover.jpg?v=1772288949"},{"product_id":"a-coney-island-of-the-mind","title":"A Coney Island of the Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to create a \"circus of the soul,\" a poetry that is both playful and profound, accessible yet visionary, rooted in the streets and cafés of everyday life yet reaching toward transcendence? Lawrence Ferlinghetti's \u003cem\u003eA Coney Island of the Mind\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most beloved and enduring works of American poetry—a collection that has sold over one million copies and introduced generations of readers to the Beat vision. Published in 1958 by City Lights Books (which Ferlinghetti founded), this slim volume captures the spirit of San Francisco's North Beach bohemia in the 1950s: jazz-inflected rhythms, surrealist imagery, social commentary, spiritual longing, and a deep love of beauty and freedom. The title, borrowed from Henry Miller's phrase \"Into the Night Life,\" perfectly captures Ferlinghetti's approach—these poems are a Coney Island, a carnival of consciousness where the sacred and profane, the comic and tragic, the political and mystical dance together in joyful, accessible verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt first encounter, Ferlinghetti's poems may seem deceptively simple—conversational, witty, filled with vivid images of painters, lovers, streetcars, and Christ climbing down from the cross. But beneath the accessible surface lies profound questioning: What does it mean to be awake in a culture of conformity and consumerism? How can poetry speak truth to power while remaining beautiful and alive? What is the relationship between art and spiritual seeking, between political engagement and personal freedom? Ferlinghetti writes as a witness to his time, celebrating beauty and denouncing injustice with equal passion. His poems ask us to see clearly, to feel deeply, to resist the forces that would numb us into compliance, and to affirm life in all its wild, contradictory fullness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers seeking contemplative wisdom in unexpected places, \u003cem\u003eA Coney Island of the Mind\u003c\/em\u003e offers poetry that is both accessible and transformative. This collection includes some of Ferlinghetti's most famous poems—\"I Am Waiting,\" a litany of longing for a more just and beautiful world; \"Constantly Risking Absurdity,\" a meditation on the poet's high-wire act; poems about Goya, Chagall, and the relationship between art and vision. This is poetry meant to be read aloud, felt in the body, shared with friends over coffee or wine. It's a reminder that contemplative practice is not always quiet or solemn—sometimes it's a carnival, a celebration, a circus of the soul that invites us to wake up, pay attention, and live with courage and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLawrence Ferlinghetti's beloved masterpiece and bestselling Beat poetry collection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOver one million copies sold—one of the most popular poetry books in America\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoems written in 1950s San Francisco capturing the Beat bohemian spirit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFamous works including \"I Am Waiting\" and \"Constantly Risking Absurdity\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJazz-inflected rhythms, surrealist imagery, and accessible verse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSocial commentary blended with spiritual longing and celebration of beauty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoetry as \"circus of the soul\"—playful, profound, and transformative\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) was an American poet, painter, publisher, and cultural icon who lived for over a century and remained a vital voice for freedom and beauty throughout his long life. Born in Yonkers, New York, Ferlinghetti served in World War II, studied at Columbia and the Sorbonne, and in 1953 co-founded City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco—the first all-paperback bookstore in America and the publishing house that would issue \u003cem\u003eHowl\u003c\/em\u003e and other Beat classics. \u003cem\u003eA Coney Island of the Mind\u003c\/em\u003e (1958) established Ferlinghetti as a major poet in his own right, distinct from but allied with Ginsberg and Kerouac. Throughout his life, Ferlinghetti championed poetry as a public art, accessible to all, engaged with social justice, and committed to beauty and freedom as spiritual values.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/strong\u003e Readers seeking accessible yet profound poetry, students of Beat literature and San Francisco bohemia, those drawn to socially engaged and spiritually aware verse, admirers of jazz-influenced poetry and oral tradition, anyone interested in poetry as public art and cultural resistance, seekers exploring the intersection of art and contemplation, students of 1950s counterculture and City Lights history, readers who love playful, visionary, life-affirming poetry, those interested in poetry meant to be read aloud and shared, admirers of poets who blend political conscience with spiritual seeking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCity Lights Books paperback edition. Ferlinghetti's beloved classic—offering a \"circus of the soul\" where poetry becomes celebration, resistance, and invitation to wake up and live fully.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lawrence Ferlinghetti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46595708649603,"sku":"BS-3QC-200417","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/1583\/7571\/files\/a_coney_island_of_the_mind_poems_by_lawrence_ferlinghetti_book_cover.jpg?v=1772288847"},{"product_id":"gasoline","title":"Gasoline","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to write poetry from the streets, from prison, from a childhood of abandonment and survival—to transform suffering into beauty with nothing but raw talent and fierce honesty? Gregory Corso's \u003cem\u003eGasoline\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most electrifying debuts in American poetry—a collection of poems written by a self-taught street kid who became one of the essential voices of the Beat Generation. Published in 1958 by City Lights Books with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg, \u003cem\u003eGasoline\u003c\/em\u003e announced the arrival of a major poet whose work combined the spontaneity and jazz rhythms of the Beats with a lyric gift and visionary imagination all his own. These poems crackle with energy, humor, tenderness, and rage—written in a voice that is utterly original, moving effortlessly from surrealist imagery to street slang, from cosmic vision to intimate confession, from comedy to heartbreak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt first encounter, Corso's poems may seem wild and unruly—their lines leaping from image to image with dizzying speed, their tone shifting from playful to prophetic in a single breath. But Corso is not writing chaos; he is writing freedom, the freedom of a poet who learned his craft not in universities but in the streets and in prison, reading the great poets on his own and discovering that poetry could be a way to transform pain into song. The poems ask: What does it mean to be an orphan, to grow up without family or home, to find your family among poets and outcasts? How can poetry capture the speed and intensity of lived experience without losing its music? What is the relationship between suffering and beauty, between survival and transcendence? Corso offers no easy answers, but he shows us a path: to write with absolute honesty, to trust the spontaneous image, to let the poem go where it needs to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers seeking contemplative wisdom in unexpected places, \u003cem\u003eGasoline\u003c\/em\u003e offers poetry that is both raw and luminous, street-smart and visionary. This collection includes some of Corso's most famous poems—\"Marriage,\" a hilarious and tender meditation on domesticity and freedom; \"Bomb,\" a controversial shaped poem about nuclear destruction; \"Ode to Coit Tower,\" celebrating San Francisco's bohemian spirit; and many others that capture the energy of 1950s New York and San Francisco. This is poetry that refuses to be tamed, that insists on the possibility of beauty even in the harshest circumstances, that transforms the language of the streets into something sacred. It's a reminder that the greatest poetry often comes from those who have nothing to lose, and that the contemplative path can be found not only in silence but in the wild, spontaneous song of lived experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGregory Corso's electrifying debut and essential Beat poetry collection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished by City Lights Books in 1958 with introduction by Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFamous poems including \"Marriage,\" \"Bomb,\" and \"Ode to Coit Tower\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRaw, spontaneous verse combining street language with visionary imagery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoetry written by a self-taught poet who learned his craft in prison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJazz rhythms, surrealist leaps, and fierce honesty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe voice of a street kid turned major American poet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGregory Corso (1930-2001) was an American poet and key figure of the Beat Generation. Born in New York City and abandoned by his mother as an infant, Corso spent much of his childhood in foster homes and on the streets. At seventeen, he was imprisoned for theft, and it was in Clinton State Prison that he discovered poetry, reading Shelley, Keats, and other great poets and beginning to write. After his release, he met Allen Ginsberg in a Greenwich Village bar, and Ginsberg recognized his extraordinary talent. \u003cem\u003eGasoline\u003c\/em\u003e (1958) established Corso as a major voice, and he went on to publish many collections. Unlike some of his Beat contemporaries, Corso never attended university—he was a true autodidact whose poetry combined street wisdom with deep literary knowledge, creating a voice that was both raw and refined, comic and tragic, utterly his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/strong\u003e Readers seeking raw, authentic poetry from lived experience, students of Beat Generation literature, those drawn to self-taught visionary poets, admirers of spontaneous composition and jazz-influenced verse, anyone interested in poetry that transforms suffering into beauty, seekers exploring the sacred in street language and everyday life, students of 1950s New York and San Francisco bohemia, readers who love poetry that is both funny and heartbreaking, those interested in prison literature and redemption through art, admirers of poets who write with absolute honesty and freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCity Lights Books paperback edition. Corso's electrifying debut—offering raw, visionary poetry from the streets that transforms pain into song and proves that the greatest art often comes from those who have nothing to lose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gregory Corso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46595726835843,"sku":"BS-3QC-531135","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/1583\/7571\/files\/gasoline_corso_book_cover.jpg?v=1772288791"},{"product_id":"the-fall-of-america-poems-of-these-states-1965-1971","title":"The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to bear witness to a nation in crisis—to chronicle the beauty and brutality of America during its most turbulent years? Allen Ginsberg's \u003cem\u003eThe Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the essential documents of the Vietnam War era, a National Book Award-winning collection that captures the flux of consciousness during what Ginsberg called the \"Automated Electronic War years.\" Composed on cross-country journeys, tape-recorded in cars and buses, scribed by hand in motels and airports, these poems are raw, immediate, prophetic—a real-time chronicle of America's descent into violence and the poet's struggle to transform rage and grief into vision. This is Ginsberg at his most ambitious and uncompromising, following \u003cem\u003ePlanet News\u003c\/em\u003e with a book that refuses to look away from the horror while never losing sight of the sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt first glance, these poems might seem chaotic, their language fragmented and their imagery hallucinatory. But Ginsberg is not writing conventional verse; he is creating what he called \"auto poesy\"—spontaneous composition that captures the mind in motion, the flux of perception as America speeds past the window. The poems ask: How do we live in a country waging an unjust war? How do we mourn our dead—Neal Cassady, Che Guevara, the countless Vietnamese civilians? What does it mean to love America while condemning its actions? And how can poetry become a form of resistance, a way of saying \"no\" to empire and \"yes\" to the human? Ginsberg offers no easy consolations, but he shows us a path: to stay awake, to keep moving, to bear witness with unflinching honesty and compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers seeking contemplative wisdom in the Beat tradition, \u003cem\u003eThe Fall of America\u003c\/em\u003e offers a profound meditation on consciousness, politics, and the poet's responsibility to speak truth. This collection includes landmark poems like \"Beginning of a Poem of These States,\" \"Elegy for Neal Cassady,\" \"On Neal's Ashes,\" \"Please Master,\" \"Hum Bom!\" and \"September on Jessore Road.\" Many were composed on an Uher tape recorder purchased with Bob Dylan's help, capturing Ginsberg's voice in real time as he crossed the American landscape. This is a book for anyone who loves poetry that engages with history, who seeks to understand the 1960s at their most raw and visionary, who believes that poetry can be a form of political and spiritual action. 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Jack Kerouac's \u003cem\u003eMexico City Blues\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most formally inventive works of the Beat Generation, a collection of 242 \"choruses\" composed in Mexico City between 1954 and 1957 that fuse Buddhist meditation, bebop improvisation, and stream-of-consciousness lyricism into something entirely new. This is Kerouac's most important verse work—a book that incorporates his theory of spontaneous composition and deepening engagement with Buddhism, moving from memory to fantasy to dream to prayer, from tributes to Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday to meditations on emptiness and compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKerouac is not writing conventional verse; he is practicing what he called \"spontaneous bop prosody\"—a method inspired by jazz improvisation where the poet follows the mind's natural movement without revision. The poems ask: How do we capture the living moment in language? How can poetry become a spiritual practice? 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Written in 1955 during Kerouac's deepest immersion in Buddhist study, this work distills the Buddha's journey from canonical scriptures into a majestic, absorbing narrative that reads \"like a symphony,\" as Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman writes in his introduction. This is not a conventional biography but a devotional retelling by a writer who identified profoundly with the Buddha's quest—a lifelong Catholic transformed by his encounter with the dharma. Kerouac captures the drama of Siddhartha's renunciation, his years of ascetic practice, his enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, and his decades of teaching with reverence, intimacy, and poetic power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKerouac is not writing as a scholar but as a fellow seeker, someone who understood the Buddha's search from the inside. The narrative asks: What drives someone to abandon wealth, family, and security for the unknown? How do we face suffering, old age, and death? What does enlightenment mean, and how do we awaken to our true nature? Kerouac shows us the Buddha's path with clarity and compassion, making ancient teachings accessible while preserving their transformative power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers seeking contemplative wisdom, \u003cem\u003eWake Up\u003c\/em\u003e serves as both a penetrating account of the Buddha's life and a concise primer on the principal teachings of Buddhism. This Penguin edition includes Robert Thurman's insightful introduction addressing Kerouac's engagement with Buddhism in his work and life. This is a book for anyone drawn to the Buddha's story, who seeks an accessible introduction to Buddhist teachings, who loves the intersection of Beat literature and Eastern spirituality. 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Gary Snyder's \u003cem\u003eRiprap and Cold Mountain Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the essential works of American Zen poetry, a groundbreaking collection that fuses manual labor, wilderness experience, and Buddhist practice into spare, precise verse. First published in Japan in 1959, this book stands \"between Tu Fu and Thoreau,\" as one critic wrote, bridging Chinese poetic tradition and American nature writing with profound simplicity and spare elegance. The collection includes Snyder's own \u003cem\u003eRiprap\u003c\/em\u003e poems—written while working as a trail crew member and fire lookout in the Cascades—alongside his acclaimed translations of Han Shan's \u003cem\u003eCold Mountain Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, perhaps the finest English renderings of that 9th-century Chinese hermit-poet ever made. 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Gary Snyder's essential first book—offering spare Zen poetry of wilderness and work alongside acclaimed translations of Han Shan's Cold Mountain hermit wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gary Snyder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46600442544259,"sku":"BS-3QC-436364","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/1583\/7571\/files\/riprap_and_cold_mountain_poems_gary_snyder_50th_anniversary_edition_book_cover.jpg?v=1772288543"},{"product_id":"mountains-and-rivers-without-end-poem","title":"Mountains and Rivers Without End: Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to journey through landscapes both outer and inner—to trace the paths of mountains and rivers across continents, cultures, and a lifetime of practice? 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