The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse

" The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse." Kyoto Journal The Zen master and mountain hermit Stonehouseconsidered one of the greatest Chinese Buddhist poetsused poetry as his medium of instruction. Near the end of his life, monks asked him to record what he found of interest on his mountain; Stonehouse delivered to them hundreds of poems and an admonition: "Do not to try singing these poems. Only if you sit on them will they do you any good." Newly r