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TEN THOUSAND JOYS AND TEN THOUSAND SORROWS Poems of Han-shan and Assorted Riffraff
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ISBN10: 1969031220
ISBN13: 9781969031229
Publisher: Ipbooks
Published: Aug 15 2026
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781969031229
Publisher: Ipbooks
Published: Aug 15 2026
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For all those who fantasize about leaving it all behind, shedding the dust of the world and living the life of a free spirit in the mountains, Han Shan has long been an ideal model. Joe Bobrow instead introduces us to a man of sorrows, grief and regret alongside freedom and joy-a complicated man-and thereby adds emotional depth to an idealized Zen archetype. His own poems, which he calls 'riff raff' in ironic homage to Gary Snyder's Riprap, display an openness, playfulness and honesty passed down from the old masters.
-BARRY MAGID, author of Nothing is Hidden: The Psychology of Zen Koans (2013)Joseph Bobrow's poems know that every day we are dying and that every one of those dying days we are also fully alive. He writes that 'memory and inclination are subject to conditions on the ground, ' and so they are in these moving poems which are the gift of seeing and of the ability to respond to tragedy and delight in equal measure while weaving them into the fabric of a life fully realized.-DAN GERBER, Author of Sailing through Cassiopeia, 2013 Book of the Year Award in Poetry from The Society of Midland Authors.In the dense moments of Bobrow's writing, intensity hovers, swells. Pain and bliss rise, fall, rise again. Which will it be moment to moment? Where can we go when it is happening? Seek refuge in a poem? These poems accost us with more of how it feels to be alive. Be ready.-MICHAEL EIGEN, author, of Eigen in Seoul, including: Pain and Beauty, Terror and Wonder (vol.3, 2021), The Challenge of Being Human (2018), and many other titles.
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