A Drifting Boat: An Anthology of Chinese Zen Poetry by Anthology and translated by Jerome P. Seaton, Dennis Maloney, Tony Barnstone, Richard B. Clark, James M. Cryer, Sam Hamill, Paul Hansen, Chris Laughrun, Joseph Lisowski, Jan W. Walls

This is poetry from China.

A Drifting Boat: An Anthology of Chinese Zen Poetry by Anthology translated by Jerome P. Seaton, Dennis Maloney, Tony Barnstone, Richard B. Clark, James M. Cryer, Sam Hamill, Paul Hansen, Chris Laughrun, Joseph Lisowski, Jan W. Walls is published by White Pine Press. This is a Anthology originally written in Chinese. This was published in and has the ISBN of .

A Drifting Boat: An Anthology of Chinese Zen Poetry is an anthology of Chinese poetry, translated by Jerome P. Seaton, Dennis Maloney, Tony Barnstone, Richard B. Clark, James M. Cryer, Sam Hamill, Paul Hansen, Chris Laughrun, Joseph Lisowski, Jan W. Walls, published by White Pine Press in None. It is an anthology of Chinese Zen poetry where impermanence, stillness, wit, and sudden perception drift together. As an anthology, it gives readers poems that often feel smaller than their consequences, brief turns of language that open into spaciousness. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of China; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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