Raking Zen Furrows: Encounters with Japan
Raking Zen Furrows
Encounters with Japan
by Inge Israel
$10.95
- 1991
- ISBN 978-0-921870-05-0 (0-921870-05-1)
- 6″ x 9″ Trade Paperback, 62 pages
- Poetry
In her fourth volume of poetry, Inge Israel takes the reader on a journey deep into contemporary Japan. She depicts the conflict between the consumerism of industrial life and the luminosity of age-old ceremonies. In the end, the delicate, lyric qualities of Israel’s poems re-establish the patterns of Zen.
Reviews:
“These beautifully crafted poems evoke the spiritual reality of Japan as a Western mind encounters it — a meditation on profound issues of our existence.”
—Henry Kreisel“Inge Israel writes of a Kyoto of silent rains, of ceremonies in appearance only, of Basho numinous and floating, of evanescence drifting into humblest stone.”
—E.D. Blodgett
