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Strange Big Moon

by Joanne Kyger
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Overview

Hungry to explore Zen and make the discoveries that would shape a lifetime of poetry, Joanne Kyger left for Japan in her twenties and returned four years later ready to carve out a substantial niche in San Francisco's Beat poetry movement. Whether she is studying under Zen teacher Ruth Fuller Sakaki or meeting with the Dalai Lama (who at 27 "lounged on a velvet couch like a gawky adolescent in red robes"), her journals are witty, amusing, and intelligent, in this fascinating look at the art of poetry and portrait of the counterculture abroad.

About the Author, Joanne Kyger

Joanne Kyger has taught for many years at New College in San Francisco and in the Poetics Program at Naropa Institute in Boulder. Her most recent books are Patzcuaro and Some Life. She lives in Northern California.

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Book Details

Published
June 30, 2000
Publisher
Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, c2000.
Pages
280
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781556433375

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