{"product_id":"crow-with-no-mouth","title":"Crow with No Mouth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eccentric classic of Zen poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there. He in turn invited them to look for him in the sake parlors of the Pleasure Quarters. A Zen monk-poet-calligrapher-musician, he dared to write about the joys of erotic love, along with more traditional Zen themes. He was an eccentric and genius who dared to defy authority and despised corruption. Although he lived during times plagued by war, famine, rioting, and religious upheaval, his writing and music prevailed, influencing Japanese culture to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIkkyu scandalized the Zen community of his day and is likely to scandalize some readers even now--his short poems are simultaneously bawdy, abrupt, vulgar, and reverential... It is impossible not to love the velocity and variety of his verse.--\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Berg is exactly the right poet to have translated these poems.--Hayden Carruth, \u003ci\u003eThe Hudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA deeply sensual man, Ikkyu had little patience for the fussiness of monastic life and ritual... What is especially appealing about Ikkyu's poetry is the way his sensuality infuses his Zen sensibility.--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Berg\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-2014) was the founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso available by Stephen Berg\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteel Cricket\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePB $16.00, 1-55659-075-X - CUSA\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePB $12.00, 1-55659-043-1 - CUSA\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33010977308772,"sku":"9781556591525","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/crow-with-no-mouth","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}