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Thumb to Thumb... and Yet

Thumb to Thumb... and Yet

Coyote, Peter

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 15, 2026

ISBN10: 1961897989
ISBN13: 9781961897984
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

If Emmy Award-winner Peter Coyote's debut collection represents the culmination of a half-century's devotion to writing poetry, his second functions as a true encore: triumphant and raw. Thumb to Thumb... and Yet presents eighty-plus years of living -- the countercultural adventures, the journey from Zen Buddhist discipleship to priesthood, marriage and divorce, a public career in entertainment, and the private work and rewards of parenthood -- not as a retrospective but as a perpetual process of becoming. Coyote captures often-elusive wisdom and infuses these pages with the fullness of human experience: weariness that labor never ceases, that we cannot outgrow suffering, that we're like Manteaux ducks, immobilized so the fat / of everything can be forced down our gullets, the glut of gavage neverending and no option to stop swallowing; frustration that ambition and ego persist despite the pre-dawn Zendo chill and over five decades spent thumb-to-thumb sitting in devoted practice; the satisfaction of pleasure, smiling in the ruined sheets; gratitude for life consummated and life ongoing and life that will continue long after us, for the opportunity of existence, for the work itself, for the single nuthatch [that] bows / upside down on the grand oak and its reminder during meditation that everything presents itself as a partner. The titular qualification of that and yet is an argument against and a celebration of conclusion; in a masterful encapsulation of the lyrical moment itself, these poems find Coyote returning to the stage only to perform another finale, every end recycled toward beginning. One song cedes to another, and yet the music flows on.

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