In July, 2010, poet and Zen priest Norman Fischer travelled to Kyoto to visit temples and meet with fellow practitioners. Escape This Crazy Life of Tears is a poetic journal of that trip.
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Charlotte’s Way
Norman Fischer's long poem takes as its place Charlotte's Way, a house on the California coast, but mostly the poem takes things in. Fischer, a Zen priest, meditates on talk, the passing of time, the brain, catness, bills to be paid, and myriad other subjects as they flicker in and out of thought.
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