Zen Telegrams: 79 Picture Poems
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a breathtaking marriage of image and word, Zen Telegrams: 79 Picture Poems presents a collection of visual poetry that channels the ancient wisdom of Zen Buddhism into bold, brushstroke-driven art. Paul Reps — poet, artist, and one of the earliest Western interpreters of Zen — distills profound spiritual insight into 79 spare, striking compositions, each one a fleeting moment of clarity captured between ink and silence. The work inhabits that luminous space where a single calligraphic gesture speaks more than a thousand words, inviting the reader to pause, breathe, and see anew. Reps, celebrated for his landmark anthology Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, brings the same disarming simplicity and wit to this collection, where the boundary between poem and painting dissolves entirely. Rooted in the Zen tradition of direct transmission — bypassing the intellect to strike at the heart — these telegrams arrive with the force of a koan and the tenderness of a whispered truth. For those drawn to mindfulness, Eastern philosophy, or the art of seeing, this slender volume carries a weight entirely disproportionate to its size, leaving one to wonder what message the next page might deliver.
Author: Paul Reps
Format: Paperback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a breathtaking marriage of image and word, Zen Telegrams: 79 Picture Poems presents a collection of visual poetry that channels the ancient wisdom of Zen Buddhism into bold, brushstroke-driven art. Paul Reps — poet, artist, and one of the earliest Western interpreters of Zen — distills profound spiritual insight into 79 spare, striking compositions, each one a fleeting moment of clarity captured between ink and silence. The work inhabits that luminous space where a single calligraphic gesture speaks more than a thousand words, inviting the reader to pause, breathe, and see anew. Reps, celebrated for his landmark anthology Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, brings the same disarming simplicity and wit to this collection, where the boundary between poem and painting dissolves entirely. Rooted in the Zen tradition of direct transmission — bypassing the intellect to strike at the heart — these telegrams arrive with the force of a koan and the tenderness of a whispered truth. For those drawn to mindfulness, Eastern philosophy, or the art of seeing, this slender volume carries a weight entirely disproportionate to its size, leaving one to wonder what message the next page might deliver.