Triumph of the Sparrow by Shinkichi Takahashi Paperback Book 9780802137364

Shinkichi Takahashi is one of the truly great figures in world poetry In the classic Zen tradition of economy disciplined attention and subtlety Takahashi lucidly captures that which is contemporary in its problems and experiences yet classic in its quest for unity with the Absolute Lucien Stryk Takahashis fellow poet and close friend here presents Takahashis complete body of Zen poems in an English translation that conveys the grace and power of Takahashis superb art quotA firstrate poet Takahashi springs out of some crack between ordinary worlds that is there is some genuine madness of the sort striven for in Zenquot Robert Bly quotWe visit places in Takahashi that we once may have visited in a dream or in a moment too startling to record the perception You need know nothing of Zen to become immersed in his work You will inevitably know something of Zen when you emergequot Jim Harrison American Poetry Review