Cuckoo's Blood: Versions of Zen Poetry

“We need poets like this. Mr. Berg relentlessly describes what we would often prefer to forget but can't allow ourselves to forget.”—The New York Times Book Review

Certain poems of Zen masters, including work by Ikkyu, Basho, and Dogen, have haunted and nourished readers from around the world for centuries—and Steven Berg for fifty years. Driven to know “what these people thought, believed, felt,” Berg rewrote existing translations to create provocative, energized, and multilayered versions.

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