Tag Archives: Gary Snyder

Meditations In An Emergency ~Part One~

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Nuallain House, Publishers

MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY~Part One~ By David Perry The Cosmopolitan, the Quotidian, and the Anthropocene Turnin Sun Dong’s 2020 Pandemic Poetry “春天在人类纪欲呼无气，欲加口罩” — 孙冬《注视》“Spring in the Anthropocene You who’d scream to breathe, add a mask”— Sun Dong, “Fixed Gaze” 空山不見人，　但聞人語響。— 王維《鹿柴》Empty mountains: … Continue reading →

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This Heaven Where We Live As Music

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Rounding out Philip Whalen Month is a previously published succinct and insightful review of The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen by Keith Kumasen Abbott who has authored numerous essay and lectures on the American poet and Zen monk appearing in … Continue reading →

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In Close Proximity—Part One

Posted on October 15, 2020 by Nuallain House, Publishers

In Close Proximity—Part One excerpts from Side Effect A Journal of Zen Life with Philip Whalen by Tensho David Schneider Tensho David Schneider’s journal, Side Effect came about from the idea that the sayings and doings of Philip Whalen—Zenshin Ryufu … Continue reading →

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Hello, I Must Be Going [Part II]

Posted on October 8, 2020 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Hello, I Must Be Going [Part II] Excerpts from Thanks For Asking: The Whalen Journal by Steve Silberman In May of 1993, Michael Wenger at the San Francisco Zen Center contacted Steve and asked him if he … Continue reading →

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Hello, I Must Be Going [Part I]

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Hello, I Must Be Going [Part I] Excerpts from Thanks For Asking: The Whalen Journal by Steve Silberman . In May of 1993, Michael Wenger at the San Francisco Zen Center contacted … Continue reading →

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The Education of Pat Nolan

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Nuallain House, Publishers

The Education Of Pat Nolan An Anniversary Memorial for Keith Kumasen Abbott, 1944-2019 By Pat Nolan Paintings by Ivan Suvanjieff In pursuit of the writer’s life with absolutely no clue of what I was doing, I left the Midwest (c.1965) … Continue reading →

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Never Apologize, Never Explain, Part II

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Never Apologize Never Explain, Part II Further Notes on Understanding the Poetry of Philip Whalen By Pat Nolan “Philip was always writing, always reading, and whenever possible playing music.” —Gary Snyder, Preface to The Collected … Continue reading →

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Provincialism and the Gentrification of Anglo-American Poetry, Part I

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Definitions To start with a definition: provincialism, a mode of thought no longer solely relegated to regions outside high density urban areas, and characterized by narrow-mindedness, insularity, lack of, or excess of, sophistication. “The provincialism of contemporary poets represents a … Continue reading →

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Blue Suede Shoes Redux: The Specimen Issue

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Legend has it that that Keith Abbott joined the mimeograph underground by liberating a ream of paper from the WWSC English Department supply closet, acquiring a quire of stencils (one may say that now), and finding someone with a mimeograph … Continue reading →

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This Is How Legends Begin

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Nuallain House, Publishers

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next to nature, Art; I warm’d both hands before the fire of Life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. —Walter Savage Landor Recollections, appreciations, … Continue reading →

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