2 Gary Snyder’s Selective Way to Cold Mountain

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Literature as Vehicle
7. The Emptiness of Patterned Flux 21
8. Gary Snyder’s Selective Way to Cold Mountain 45
9. John Giorno 63
10. Buddhadharma and Poetry without Credentials 83
11. Zen, Vajrayana, and the Avante-Garde
12. Finger Pointing at the Moon 103
13. Keeping Vision Alive 123
14. Illumination Through the Cracks 139
15. The American Poetic Diamond Vehicle 155
16. Widening the Circle
17. Buddhism, the Chinese Religion, and the Ceremony of Writing 177
18. A Bridge between Two Worlds 189
19. ‘Opening the Hand of Thought’ 207
20. Afterword 229
21. Contributors 243
22. Index 247