TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schneider,David
TI  - Crowded by Beauty: The Life and Zen of Poet Philip Whalen
SN  - 9780520960992
AV  - PS3545.H117 
U1  - 813/.54 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Beat generation
KW  - Poets, American--20th century
KW  - Whalen, Philip
KW  - Zen Buddhists
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Crowded by Beauty -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Brief Chronology -- 1. Reflection in Friends -- 2. Banjo Eyes: Whalen and Ginsberg -- 3. Buddha Red Ears: Whalen and Kerouac -- 4. Kalyanamitra: Whalen and Snyder -- 5. Your Heart Is Fine: Whalen and Kyger -- 6. Hail Thee Who Play: Whalen and McClure -- 7. Early: 1923-1943 -- 8. Forced Association: Army Life, 1943-1946 -- 9. Reed's Fine College: 1946-1951 -- 10. Solvitur Ambulando: 1959-1971 -- 11. Japan, Bolinas, Japan, Bolinas: 1965-1971 -- 12. New Years: Whalen and Baker, Zen Center -- 13. An Order to Love: Ordination -- 14. Rope of Sand: Santa Fe and Dharma Transmission -- 15. RSVP: Hartford Street, Decline and Death -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Primary Sources -- Index
N2  - Philip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950s and '60s. When the Beat writers came West, Whalen became a revered, much-loved member of the group. Erudite, shy, and profoundly spiritual, his presence not only moved his immediate circle of Beat cohorts, but his powerful, startling, innovative work would come to impact American poetry to the present day.    Drawing on Whalen's journals and personal correspondence--particularly with Ginsberg, Kerouac, Snyder, Kyger, Welch, and McClure --David Schneider shows how deeply bonded these intimates were, supporting one another in their art and their spiritual paths. Schneider, himself an ordained priest, provides an insider's view of Whalen's struggles and breakthroughs in his thirty years as a Zen monk. When Whalen died in 2002 as the retired Abbot of the Hartford Street Zen Center, his own teacher referred to him as a patriarch of the Western lineage of Buddhism. Crowded by Beauty chronicles the course of Whalen's life, focusing on his unique, eccentric, humorous, and literary-religious practice
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