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).

Magazine | Brief Teachings

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…

By Margaret Gibson

Narrow Road to the Interior

Magazine | Reviews

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…

By Margaret Gibson

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