Waking to Snow - by Robert MacLean (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Waking to Snow tracks twenty-five years of living in Kyoto, following the rhythm of seasons, Zen practice, and academic and personal life, before the final decision to return to Canada.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Poems that gaze and listen: What is stillness? Can you hold emptiness? </em></p><p><br></p><p><em>Waking to Snow</em> tracks twenty-five years of living in Kyoto. The poems are arranged roughly chronologically, in four sections, following the rhythms of the seasons, of Zen practice and <em>sesshin </em>retreats, along with poems about brief returns to Canada to visit aging parents, childhood memories, and academic and married life. Throughout, many poems attempt to decipher 'the lost languages' of nature: rice-seedlings, snails, chickadees, flowers, cicadas, heron, crickets, a bush warbler, an abandoned kitten, stars, trees, weather, wind, snow. At the very heart of the book is 'Still', a stunningly powerful sequence of eighteen poems describing the anguish of a stillbirth.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>With these poems, Robert MacLean gives to those flashes of insight that arise in the interstices of the everyday a permanent home, replete with creaturely companionship and compassionate ardour. - Roo Borson, co-author of <em>Box Kite: Prose Poems by Baziju</em></p><p><br></p><p>In <em>Waking to Snow, </em>Robert MacLean writes with the immediacy and refreshing directness of a life steeped in Zen. His poems are spacious even as they bring an intimate attention to their subjects, whether it be a visit to a fortune teller in Portland, Oregon; crickets - 'wizened, black- / robed monks' - chanting in Kyoto; or the unfathomable loss of a child in stillbirth. Each poem offers a striking illumination and a vivid reminder of the warmth and clarity we might bring to the ten thousand joys and sorrows of our own lives. <em>Waking to Snow</em> is a quietly dazzling book. -John Brehm, author of <em>No Day at the Beach </em>and <em>The Dharma of Poetry</em></p><br>
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