Crowded by beauty : the life and Zen of poet Philip Whalen / / David Schneider

• Autore: Schneider David <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetto topico: Beat generation; Poets, American - 20th century; Zen Buddhists
• Soggetto non controllato: 1950s; 1960s; abbot of hartford street zen center; american poetry; american poets; beat biography; beat generation; beat poetry; ben fagan; bio; biography; buddha; buddhism; buddhist poetry; california; ginsberg; keruoac; namthar; nonfiction; philip whalen; poetry; poets; religion; religious poetry; religious practice; san francisco renaissance; san francisco; spirituality; students and teachers; verse; warren coughlin; west coast; western buddhism; zen buddhists; zen monk
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Brief Chronology -- 1. Reflection in Friends -- 2. Banjo Eyes: Whalen and Ginsberg -- 3. Buddha Red Ears: Whalen and Kerouac -- 4. Kalyanamitra: Whalen and Snyder -- 5. Your Heart Is Fine: Whalen and Kyger -- 6. Hail Thee Who Play: Whalen and McClure -- 7. Early: 1923-1943 -- 8. Forced Association: Army Life, 1943-1946 -- 9. Reed's Fine College: 1946-1951 -- 10. Solvitur Ambulando: 1959-1971 -- 11. Japan, Bolinas, Japan, Bolinas: 1965-1971 -- 12. New Years: Whalen and Baker, Zen Center -- 13. An Order to Love: Ordination -- 14. Rope of Sand: Santa Fe and Dharma Transmission -- 15. RSVP: Hartford Street, Decline and Death -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Primary Sources -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Philip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950's and '60's. When the Beat writers came West, Whalen became a revered, much-loved member of the group. Erudite, shy, and profoundly spiritual, his presence not only moved his immediate circle of Beat cohorts, but his powerful, startling, innovative work would come to impact American poetry to the present day. Drawing on Whalen's journals and personal correspondence-particularly with Ginsberg, Kerouac, Snyder, Kyger, Welch, and McClure -David Schneider shows how deeply bonded these intimates were, supporting one another in their art and their spiritual paths. Schneider, himself an ordained priest, provides an insider's view of Whalen's struggles and breakthroughs in his thirty years as a Zen monk. When Whalen died in 2002 as the retired Abbot of the Hartford Street Zen Center, his own teacher referred to him as a patriarch of the Western lineage of Buddhism. Crowded by Beauty chronicles the course of Whalen's life, focusing on his unique, eccentric, humorous, and literary-religious practice.
• Titolo autorizzato: Crowded by beauty
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788108003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II