Zen in American Life and Letters

Malibu: Undena Publications, 1987. ix, 179 pages; 24 cm; bibliographical references. Fine with extremely faint sun-fading to rear wrap and very minor edge wear in parts. Appears unread and nearly as new. Paperback. ISBN: 0890032602 ; 9780890032602

Interplay, 6 [series].

Contents: Zen Poetry, American Critics; American Poetry, Zen Criticism: Robert Aitken, Basho, and Wallace Stevens / Jerome Griswold -- Beyond Negation: Zen as Deconstruction / Michelle Yeh -- Zen and Art / Diane Divelbess -- the Suchness of Things: In Buddhism, American Transcendentalism and Ordinary Language Philosophy / Charles Crittenden -- Between America and Japan: The Case of Daistesu Teitaro Suzuki / William R. LaFleur -- East and West: In the Presence of the Subconscious / James D. Thomas -- the Sociology of Religion and the Study of Zen Buddhism in America: Transforming the Birds of Appetite / Leonard J. Pinto -- Zen and Phenomenological Literary Criticism / Paulino Lim, Jr. -- Dialogue With Zen in Two Streams of American Thought / Dale S. Wright -- Conservative and Radical Themes in American Zen: Three Writers / Robert S. Ellwood -- the Development of the American Buddhist Peace Movement / Paul D. Jaffe. ¶

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