Simple
God’s joy, wrote Rumi,
moves from unmarked box to unmarked box. I remember my sister’s husband,
after her stroke, complaining
“Liz is a box. It says
on the outside Liz, but she’s not there, not the Liz I…
Margaret Gibson
Margaret Gibson has published four books with Louisiana University Press, most recently Out in the Open. Her work is included in Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry (Shambhala Publications).
Destination Zero: Poems 1970-1995
By Sam Hamill
Narrow Road to the Interior
Narrow Road to the Interior By Matsuo Basho. Translated by Sam Hamill. Shambhala Publications: Boston, 1991. 105 pp. $10.00 (paperback). As Sam Hamill reminds us in the preface to this lucid and engaging translation, Basho’s haibun—brief prose…
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