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This authoritative, bilingual edition represents the first time the entirety of Cold Mountain's poetry has been translated into English.
These translations were originally published by Copper Canyon Press nearly twenty years ago. Now, significantly revised and expanded, the collection also includes a new preface by the translator, Red Pine, whose accompanying notes are at once scholarly, accessible, and entertaining. Also included for the first time are poems by two of Cold Mountain's colleagues.
Legendary for his clarity, directness, and lack of pretension, the eight-century hermit-poet
Cold Mountain (Han Shan) is a major figure in the history of Chinese literature and has been a profound influence on writers and readers worldwide. Writers such as Charles Frazier and Gary Snyder studied his poetry, and Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums is dedicated "to Han Shan."
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storied cliffs were the fortune I cast
bird trails beyond human tracks
what surrounds my yard
white clouds nesting dark rocks
I've lived here quite a few years
and always seen the spring-water change
tell those people with tripods and bells
empty names are no damn good
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someone sits in a mountain gorge
cloud robe sunset tassels
handful of fragrances he'd share
the road is long and hard
regretful and doubtful
old and unaccomplished
the crowd calls him crippled
he stands alone steadfast
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my place is on Cold Mountain
perched on a cliff beyond the circuit of affliction
images leave no trace when they vanish
I roam the whole galaxy from here
lights and shadows flash across my mind
not one dharma comes before me
since I found the magic pearl
I can go anywhere everywhere it's perfect
Cold Mountain
A mountain man lives under thatch
before his gate carts and horses are rare
the forest is quiet but partial to birds
the streams are wide and home to fish
with his son he picks wild fruit
with his wife he hoes between rocks
what does he have at home
a shelf full of nothing but books
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Just to add my stars.......2007-05-04
As other reviewers have already stated, this is a very nice volume of poetry, very nicely put together with the original chinese on one page and the translation on the opposite page. This is the third volume of Han Shan that I have, and it is by far the best in terms of completeness and the essence of the translations. Get a copy or three before the print run is over!
Moon over sea / Wave against rock.......2007-03-21
Cold Moutain chuckles still
as he reads through my eyes
those poems that he carved in stone.
Appropriate now
as they were back then,
his laughter knows no bounds.
No center, no boundaries,
all opposites dissolve.
Suchness beyond "as one".
Moon over sea,
Wave against rock.
All returns instantly!
Like a cold refreshing breeze.......2006-11-28
Somehow Cold Mountain, limping along from his mountain, creates seemingly simple and clear songs ("called by others crippled / he stands along steadfast") . Wonderful footnoted by "Red Pine" explain deeper references to Taoist or Buddhist texts and humorous digs at Chinese officials. Cold Mountain avoids the dogma or sophistry of any organization or religion, and avoids the chains of strict poetic for:m
"I've made elixirs and tried to become immortal
I've read the classics and written odes
and now I've retired to Cold Mountain
to lie in a stream and wash out my ears".
He has no problem mixing Buddhist and Taoist metaphors if it will make his point. This book provides a nice refuge and finding of a relation to nature:
"Spring water is pure in an emerald stream
moonlight is white on Cold Mountain"
Cold Mountain also finds peace inside:
"we all posses a miraculous creature
with neither form nor name
call and it answers clearly"
To top off the book are 4 poems by Big stick and 49 by "Pickup" friends of Cold Mountain. A great book!
Rarefied Air: New Translations by Red Pine.......2006-11-09
The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain may seem to the non-poetry lover to be a book of music form the regions of America so well described in Frazier's novel Cold Mountain. But to those potential readers of this touching book there will be the surprise the 'Cold Mountain' is the name Han Shan, a poet whose works were written on the trees, the rocks and the walls of temples in China some twelve hundred years ago. Han Shan was a Taoist/Buddhist monk who spent his life begging for food and living among the isolated farmers while he grew to become an immortalized Zen poet.
This beautifully produced book offers a fine introduction by John Blofeld and an even finer translation and commentary on the poems of Cold Mountain by translator Red Pine. Pine has not only provided us with eloquent English translations of the poet's 300 odd poems, poems that breathe of mysticism as well as of human foibles and humor, but he also relates these ancient poems to the cultural and literary history (and yes, even political!) of China. A taste: '...how could I know beneath the pines/ I would hug my knees in a frigid wind'. Indeed, these poems are songs, and songs that will hopefully find a wide audience. Grady Harp, November 06
Cold Mountain like Shakuhachi.......2006-06-23
The great thing about Cold Mountain is that he is transparent to translators. Arguing the merits of one Cold Mountain translation against another is like comparing a Gudo Ishibashi 2.8 shakuhachi to a 2.9 Mujitsu shakuhachi by Ken LaCosse. Both flutes will get you "there." But the journey will be different.
The same is true of Cold Mountain. Snyder is as good as Watson is a good as Red Pine is as good as Henricks.
Or like Dogen translations...
why sink a straw that floats on the water, when the moon itself rides in ripples beside the straw?
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- Prelude to Glory Volume 5 A Cold Bleak Hill
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Prelude to Glory Volume 5 A Cold Bleak Hill (Prelude to Glory) (Carter, Ron, Prelude to Glory, V. 5.)
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Prelude to Glory Volume 5 A Cold Bleak Hill .......2007-06-12
Book follows alone with the trials & tribulations of the original people as it moves through the American Revolution
By The Dawn's Early Light.......2006-07-24
I am almost to the end of the last volume of the series. I have so come to appreciate the great sacrifice that our forefathers made to make and keep our country free. My heart was pained and I was brought to tears at the unbelievable things they had to suffer in their battle for independence. The 4th of July has a much deeper meaning for me now. I very much appreciated all the research done by the author to produce such a well written series. I have them all and they are prized.
A Cold Bleak Hill.......2002-01-23
This book is extremely moving and intense. I have gained a great appreciation for the selfless acts and unyeilding faith that our forefathers had. I have learned a great deal about the history of the Revolutionary War as the author has creatively woven in fictional characters and yet accurately described events and locations that are a part of this nations history. I have read the entire series and cannot wait for the next one to be published.
A Cold Bleak Hill.......2001-11-12
This story of our American Revalutionary War, is told so vividly that the reader feels like they are there, experiencing it with the people at that time. It covers the period when George Washington and his troops were at Valley Forge. It is at the same calaber as the rest of this series; "Prelude to Glory". I highly recommend this book to all DAR members.
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A Treasure Of Medicine For The Mind...!.......2007-02-02
I was given this book while travelling in Nepal some years ago. It has become my most loved book.
What lies behind the words is such beauty, sadness and humour... true mind medicine for those who would be so daring as to go beyond the lonliness of solitude, to the world of Han Shan...
"When night comes I sing to the bright moon; at dawn I dance with white clouds."
After living in solitude for some time I really got a sense of the aching sadness in some of these poems, such as...
"I came here to sit on Cold Mountain and lingered here for thirty years.
Yesterday I went to see relatives and friends-- over half had gone to the Yellow Springs.
Bit by bit life fades like a guttering lamp, passes on like a river that never rests.
This morning I face my lonely shadow and before I know it tears stream down."
But above all I see Han Shan as a rebel who found his way to Cold Mountain, shunning and often making fun of the worldly life that he left behind. With regards to spiritual seekers he offers:
"Honey is sweet - men love the taste; medicine is bitter and hard to swallow."
This book is filled with jewels!
"Try coming to Cold Mountain sometime!".......2006-09-08
I don't know Chinese. I know a little about Chinese Buddhism. But Han-shan and Watson have made these poem's familar: it's our condition.
Each poem is a neat little eight line chunk. Nothing elaborate here, just simple poetry for our simpler side. Given all the bloated religious teachers and poets I've read, this is a refreshing change. Try to imagine how long it might take you to come up with a similar brief wise poem. Then consider Watson only translated 100 of Han-Shan's roughly 300 poems. How cold was that mountain?
Cold Mountain like Shakuhachi.......2006-06-23
The great thing about Cold Mountain is that he is transparent to translators. Arguing the merits of one Cold Mountain translation against another is like comparing a Gudo Ishibashi 2.8 shakuhachi to a 2.9 Mujitsu shakuhachi by Ken LaCosse. Both flutes will get you "there." But the journey will be different.
The same is true of Cold Mountain. Snyder is as good as Watson is a good as Red Pine is as good as Henricks.
Or like Dogen translations...
why sink a straw that floats on the water, when the moon itself rides in ripples beside the straw?
wonderful book of poems.......2004-03-25
this book deserves to be read by anyone interested in the outdoors or eastern poetry. it is striking, pensive, simple, and beautiful, while allowing for rich emotion and endearingly opinionated topics. the contextual notes are helpful, and are not so heavy as to turn the light volume of poetry into a textbook on history or literature. an easy read for anyone.
When I'm totally fed up with "civilization"...........2003-01-25
I first read this Gem-like little book because Kerouac mentioned it in his _Dharma Bums_. I'm glad he did- this is one of the most profound and satisfying books that I've ever read. It is the book I tuck into my breast pocket when I'm totally fed up with civilization and just have to get away into the back country.
This is the finest example of the writings of the tradition chinese mountain man hermit. Yet, the chinese version of the hermit was most unlike the western pattern. These men didn't reject nature and the natural world to find the divine- they merged with it. These were men who could live life with an almost dionysian intensity complete with wine and wise cracks. These men could cut to the marrow of what is truly important in life. I'm sure old Han-shan must have driven Confusius and the imperial bureaucrats nuts....
The last poem of the 101 states: "Do you have the poems of Han-shan in your house? They're better for you than sutra reading." I couldn't agree more.
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Cold Calls: The "Penultimate Chapter" of Logue's Homer.......2005-09-15
I needn't have worried. British poet Christopher Logue has been working on his "account" of Homer's Iliad since the early 1960s, and I've long feared he might not live to complete it, especially when you consider how long it takes him to write. "War Music," published in 1962, was the first piece he released, covering Book 16 of the Iliad. Over forty years later, and he's only covered Books 1-6 and 17-19. But now we have Cold Calls, which covers Books 7-8, and is apparently the penultimate chapter. According to his publisher, Logue is even now working on the final (!) volume of War Music.
Logue's installments have been released years (even decades) apart from one another, but the day will come when they are placed together, in order, in one volume, and they will provide a seamless read. Logue has lost none of his masterful touch. If anything, he's improved with age; there should be no fears that the decades separating each chapter of this work might spoil its impact. In fact, Cold Calls contains some of the best lines Logue's written. Here's one such example, as Zeus speaks to Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena:
"Darlings," He said,
"You know that being a god means being blamed.
Do this - no good. Do that - the same. The answer is:
Avoid humanity.
Remember - I am God.
I see the bigger picture."
Like the earlier "All Day Permanent Red," Cold Calls is filled with harrowing combat scenes, but also contains a healthy amount of squabbling amongst the gods, including a hilarious song Hera and Athena sing about Aphrodite that's too vulgar to recount. Only here, in Logue's fabulous Iliad, will you find Aphrodite calling Hera a "blubber-bummed wife" with "gobstopper nipples," and Athena an "undercurved preceptatrix." Only here will you find this same goddess appearing in "grey silk lounge pyjamas piped with gold" and "snakeskin flip-flops," and referred to as "Our Lady of the Thong." Only here will you find Athena screaming for the blood of Troy from a decapitated Greek head.
Special mention must be made of the sequence in which Aphrodite, injured by the Athena-empowered Diomedes, goes to the river-god Scamander for aid. Homer hinted at the erotic overtones here, but Logue highlights them, with an over-eager Scamander screaming in lust for Aphrodite's "bum" as she steps into him. It's not only a comical sequence, but also one of the best written in Logue's Iliad. But then, as expected, Cold Calls is filled with Logue's excellent writing. Here's another of my favorite sections, and another example of how Logue's "account" of the Iliad excels over your standard, dry translations:
Around the tower 1000 Greeks, 1000 Ilians; amid their
swirl,
His green hair dressed in braids, each braid
Tipped with a little silver bell, note
Nyro of Simi - the handsomest of all the Greeks, save A.
The trouble was, he had no fight. He dashed from fight to
fight,
Struck a quick blow, then dashed straight out again.
Save that this time he caught,
As Prince Aeneas caught his breath,
That Prince's eye; who blocked his dash,
And as lord Panda waved and walked away,
Took his head off his spine with a backhand slice -
Beautiful stuff...straight from the blade...
Still, as it was a special head,
Mowgag, Aeneas' minder -
Bright as a box of rocks, but musical -
Spiked it, then hoisted it, and twizzling the pole
Beneath the blue, the miles of empty air,
Marched to the chingaling of its tinklers,
A majorette, towards the Greeks, the tower.
Yet more proof that a nonstandard approach to this ancient poem can produce fantastic results. I hope Logue finishes his decades-long work, and one day we have the complete War Music in one volume.
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Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America
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Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both express the upheavals in American notions of privacy that marked the Cold War era. Nelson situates the poetry and legal decisions as part of a far wider anxiety about privacy that erupted across the social, cultural, and political spectrum during this period. She explores the panic over the "death of privacy" aroused by broad changes in postwar culture: the growth of suburbia, the advent of television, the popularity of psychoanalysis, the arrival of computer databases, and the spectacles of confession associated with McCarthyism.
Examining this interchange between poetry and law at its most intense moments of reflection in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, Deborah Nelson produces a rhetorical analysis of a privacy concept integral to postwar America's self-definition and to bedrock contradictions in Cold War ideology. Nelson argues that the desire to stabilize privacy in a constitutional right and the movement toward confession in postwar American poetry were not simply manifestations of the anxiety about privacy. Supreme Court justices and confessional poets such as Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, W. D. Snodgrass, and Sylvia Plath were redefining the nature of privacy itself. Close reading of the poetry alongside the Supreme Court's shifting definitions of privacy in landmark decisions reveals a broader and deeper cultural metaphor at work.
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Groundbreaking work.......2003-07-09
I'm a lawyer, not a literary critic, and this is one of the best, if not the best, account of constitutional privacy doctrine in its historical context there is. I also found the cultural history and the literary readings illuminating. The writing is clear and jargon-free, too.
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Forty-five years ago, Gary Snyder’s first book of poems, Riprap, was published by Origin Press in a beautiful paperbound edition stitched Japanese-style. Around that time Snyder published his translations of Chinese poet Han-Shan’s Cold Mountain Poems in the sixth issue of the “Evergreen Review.” Thus was launched one of the most remarkable literary careers of the last century. It is a great gift for all readers to now have this seminal collection back in print.
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Cold Mountain like Shakuhachi.......2006-06-23
The great thing about Cold Mountain is that he is transparent to translators. Arguing the merits of one Cold Mountain translation against another is like comparing a Gudo Ishibashi 2.8 shakuhachi to a 2.9 Mujitsu shakuhachi by Ken LaCosse. Both flutes will get you "there." But the journey will be different.
The same is true of Cold Mountain. Snyder is as good as Watson is a good as Red Pine is as good as Henricks.
Or like Dogen translations...
why sink a straw that floats on the water, when the moon itself rides in ripples beside the straw?
"Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup.".......2001-06-20
Amidst the poetry of the Sixties, Gary Snyder's early poems stood out as something very special, and are still very special. In contrast to the obscure and convoluted writings of an assortment of neurasthenic, super-sophisticated, and compulsive scribblers, types so totally and utterly wrapped up in themselves that they completely overlooked that insignificant thing hovering outside their window (ordinary folks call it the universe), and whose work goes unread because it is largely unreadable, Snyder's work came as a revelation.
Here was a poet who was very, very different - a poet who, far from being totally wrapped up in himself, was instead wrapped up in the universe. He appeals to us because, being himself wholly in touch with reality, he helps us get back in touch with reality ourselves. Ego is put firmly in its place, opening up a space in which the myriad things can come forward and announce themselves.
The secret of how Snyder was able to do this, of how he was able to bring us, not yet another of those obscure, tortured and anguished sensibilities who were and still are so thick on the ground, but who brought instead a sane and wholesome vision of the world, is all there in the very first poem of RIPRAP, 'Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout' :
"Down valley a smoke haze / Three days heat, after five days rain / Pitch glows on the fir-cones / Across rocks and meadows / Swarms of new flies. // I cannot remember things I once read / A few friends, but they are in cities. / Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup / Looking down for miles / Through high still air" (p.9).
Where did Snyder learn how to do this? The answer is that it could only have been in China. The poem is the perfect expression, in English, of that commonsensical attitude that grounds itself firmly in realities; that keeps ego firmly under control; that practises a reasonable, as opposed to an excessive, use of reason; and that is commonly found in the best Chinese and Zen poets.
To translate Zen-man Han Shan, Snyder penetrated so deeply into the spirit of Han Shan that he succeeded in becoming a sort of American Han Shan himself. The result is a poetry not of coteries, of academic and intellectual circles, of super-sophisticated and pretentious Ivy League graduates, but poems that have real meaning and that can be read with understanding and enjoyment by anyone
The poetry of RIPRAP and COLD MOUNTAIN, like the poetry of many Chinese and Japanese poets, is a wholesome poetry, a poetry that cleanses and refreshes the sensibility, and that transports us from the technoid madness of our own chaotic world to something more human and hence more meaningful.
There's real sustenance for the spirit in these poems. They're like "drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup." Readers would be unwise to pass them by.
The book contains good early Snyder poems and fine translati.......1998-08-07
This book passes the test of time because of its taut poetry and insight into the link between Sndyer's environment in the Pacific Northwest and his inner landscape. The second part of the book is priceless. Snyder's Zen practice and skill as a writer and linguist make him eminently qualified to translate the words of the reclusive poet Han-Shan, whose poems ring true today. I have read other translations of Han-Shan but Snyder's is the best. Its paradoxes move us in our modern times just as they must have in early China.
Luminous early poetry and translations by Poet Snyder.......1995-09-29
Riprap lets us see the world with Snyder's vision back in
the days when Kerouac was writing about him in the Dharma
Bums. The clarity, straightforward diction, and simple
lyricism that have continued to characterize his poetry are
all here in these early poems from the fifties. Astounding
visual quality. Life in the mountains, in Japan, on the
high seas.
Cold Mountain Poems are translations of Han Shan, Chinese
Zen poet. Han Shan stands with John of the Cross in his
ability to illuminate the spiritual path through lyric
imagery. Snyder's crystalline translations reveal Han
Shan to us face to face, today, not some old exotic hermit
but a vital presence.
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Cold Comfort: Selected Poems 1970-1996
Lyn Lifshin
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"Magnificently crafted poems, terse as needlework" (Choice) these concise field reports from a woman warrior at the front line of feeling confirm the suggestion of Ed Sanders that Lyn Lifshin qualifies as "a modern Emily Dickinson."
Lifshin writes with energy, fire, and truth of the common world of experience. Bearing signs of struggle, pain, and loss, these poems carry the history of the body with agony and pride, as enduring tokens of what it is to be alive.
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THE DOYENNE DOES IT AGAIN!.......2000-03-16
I picked up Lifshin's book at a bookstore in Portsmouth, NH., didn't put it down for awhile. Where else can you get a book that deals with love, life and death so beautifully. Her work inspires me to do better as a writer and a poet.
Electrifying, a shock to the system!.......1999-11-30
Reading Lyn's poems gets the mind set to a beat which whirls into a crescendo of image and sound combined into a different force if their own. Her poems are terse and no-nonsense; she does not play around. Her short lines and minimal use of punctuation, and sometimes leaving out a word, allows the reader's own imagination to fill in the blanks-- which are not really blanks, but blind spots which the mind and eye must pick up ensemble. Sometimes, when I read her poems, I feel that I've ridden a whirlwing to a far-off but familliar place. You gotta read this book!
Absolutely Wonderful........1998-07-17
I had been waiting for this book for some time, after becoming acquainted with the author's work through various journals. It was worth the wait.
I cannot even think of another poet who wraps words so tightly around the page. Not a single syllable is wasted. It would be insulting to the author to attempt to describe the "feel" of her poetry in 1,000 words or less. Simply put, I have never been more moved by written words. You feel as if you had dreamed every word the night before and wish you had written it down first. Absolutely inspiring.
Along with Ted Hughes' BIRTHDAY LETTERS, this is the only other absolutely necessary book of poetry within the past year
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The true way of the ninja.......2006-09-22
The author is an American who traveled to the remote Iga region of Japan. While there, he became the apprentice of a thirty-fourth generation Togakure ninjutsu grandmaster. Ninjutsu is a nine-hundred-year-old art of ninja combat based on silent movement and subtle combat. Hayes became the first westerner in the history of the Togakure ninja clan to be awarded the title of Shidoshi or "teacher of the warrior ways of enlightenment." This book is a collection of his original writings and photos.
While written in English, these verses have a clear Japanese style. Soft, sometimes subtle messages embedded in brief passages that describe the ways of the ninja warrior. Contrary to what is often depicted in movies, the way of the ninja is not one of pounding everyone within reach while screaming at the top of their lungs. It is guile, stealth and cunning, for the greatest victory is often in the battle that is not fought. While Hayes is obviously not a polished writer, I was impressed with his verses. It kept the Japanese style, although with an American modification and they clearly express the true way of the ninja master.
Philosophy of Ninpo Clear, Concise, in English!.......2006-03-13
A book of Ninpo Philosophy and poetry, liberally illustrated with photographs of Stephen and Rumiko Hayes, Hatsumi Masaaki, and numerous photographs in the Mikkyo Buddhist tradition and of Japanese architecture.
Hayes says he has based this work on the cryptic "Makimono" (school transmission scrolls) of history. This is Hayes way of passing on the lore of ninpo to the rest of us. Well thought out, well written, and thankfully NOT cryptic or confusing. Nowadays, it is often difficult to talk about "ninja" without sounding cheesy. Hayes always manages to completely avoid all vestiges of cheesiness and pretentiousness. This is definately not some grade-schoolish effort to "sell ninjurs by the river".
Stephen Hayes was one of the first Non-Japanese (and the first American) to study Togakure ninjutsu and the Bujinkan traditions under 34th generation Togakure-ryu Ninpo headmaster Hatsumi Matsaaki. He was the first American to be awarded the title "Shidoshi" by Hatsumi Sensei.
A Most Inspirational Book Offering Insight Into The Heart Of Ninpo........2005-12-06
Know that the heavens were created to descend into the five elemental manifestations.
>> From the rocks and earth we learn stability.
>> From the water we learn flexibility.
>> From the fire we learn intensity.
>> From the air we learn acceptance.
>> From the ethereal heavens we learn understanding.
The benevolent warrior understands the true scope and priorities of warfare.
The ninja trains to hold an empty heart to lose the singularity of self and become a part of the scheme of totality where actions are simply actions and words merely words.
Such is the Wisdom From The Ninja Village Of The Cold Moon. Stephen K. Hayes has written a most inspirational book offering insight into the heart of Ninpo. Yet beyond poetry and inspiration Stephen K. Hayes reveals secrets of the ninja's art.
Nine throwing stars of steel pocketed over your heart. Blades borne on dark winds raining from the ninja's hand ~ The steel extension of your very life force shoots forth to stun those who stalk you in the darkness.
Wisdom From The Ninja Village Of The Cold Moon is based on the cryptic maki-mono scrolls of ancient Japan ~ yet written by a modern practitioner of the ninja's art. The scrolls contain the secrets possessed by each ninja family and expanded by each generation as new truths were discovered. And so here we have the contributions of Stephen K. Hayes to the secrets of the ninja's heart.
I highly recommend this book to any student of ninjutsu, and to anyone who seeks to make his heart the source of light in his life.
Essence of the ninja.......2003-03-20
At its core, Wisdom From The Ninja Village Of The Cold Moon is an extraordinarily beautiful book of poetry. The maki-mono scrolls of the ninja clan's collected knowledge and wisdom inspire the compositional style of the book. If there is one book which can break the ... view of the black garbed ninja, this is it. Rather than focusing on what weapons the ninja uses or what fighting style he or she employs, this book reaches into the heart of the ninja. Hayes brings the philosophy and responsibilities of the ninja to the forefront by exploring everything from the need for harmony with the surrounding natural world:
"Become one with the small animals of the forest.
Teach them not to fear you.
Move with natural gentleness through the realm
You share with them." (Hayes)
To controlling one's inward feelings:
"Do not hate
and your enemy will not know that you bring his
destruction.
Do not fear
And you will not be controlled." (Hayes)
This book is necessary for the true practitioner of ninjutsu to understand that the most powerful weapons are not what is held in the hand, but what is harbored in the heart and the mind. Even for the more casual reader, truths to dealing with everyday problems will come forth from this book. A masterpiece to be treasured upon any bookshelf.
Ninja Scroll by an American Master.......2000-06-28
This was written in the style of the traditional teaching scroll inherited down the lineage among Ninja clans, pointing to their traditional teachings, but leaving much to the oral lessons of Master - student relationship. A great read!
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Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's Civil War
Shadi Bartsch
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Civil War (Oxford World's Classics)
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Is Lucan's brilliant and grotesque epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that despairingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers a startlingly new answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus.
Reflecting on the disintegration of the Roman republic in the wake of the civil war that began in 49
B.C., Lucan (writing during the grim tyranny of Nero's Rome) recounts that fateful conflict with a strangely ambiguous portrayal of his republican hero, Pompey. Although the story is one of a tragic defeat, the language of his epic is more often violent and nihilistic than heroic and tragic. And Lucan is oddly fascinated by the graphic destruction of lives, the violation of human bodies--an interest paralleled in his deviant syntax and fragmented poetry. In an analysis that draws on contemporary political thought ranging from Hannah Arendt and Richard Rorty to the poetry of Vietnam veterans, as well as on literary theory and ancient sources, Bartsch finds in the paradoxes of Lucan's poetry both a political irony that responds to the universally perceived need for, yet suspicion of, ideology, and a recourse to the redemptive power of storytelling. This shrewd and lively book contributes substantially to our understanding of Roman civilization and of poetry as a means of political expression.
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Cold Nights And Hot Biscuits: Stories from an American Childhood
Bobby King
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A Wonderful Book.......2005-12-30
Cold Nights and Hot Biscuits is a wonderful book that will be a precious walk down Memory Lane for some and a peek into the past for others. From the insightful poetry, to the heartwarming recollections of a simpler time and place, this book will be an addition to your library that you will want to read again and again. You will not be disappointed by the time you spend with this delightful book.
Precious Memories.......2005-12-28
If you are looking for a book to share with your entire famiy --this is the one....growing up in a small town learning family values from loving parents and grandparents gives this author a special understanding of what childhood should be---if you have these memories or wish you did, you will enjoy reading Cold Nights and Hot Biscuits....
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