Bowed Some, Chanted a Little: Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco

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Presents the literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest.

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The literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priestPhilip Whalen (1923–2002) authored twenty collections of verse, more than twenty broadsides, two novels, a huge assemblage of autobiographical literary journals, nine or ten experimental prose works, and dozens of critical essays, lectures, commentaries, introductions, prefaces, and interviews. But he came to regard his literary journals as his most important prose legacy.Whalen's literary work represents a significant turn in American letters, as he and his closest colleagues immersed themselves in East Asian literature and religion, reinvigorating strikingly new linguistic and aesthetic paths for North American writers and artists. However, until now Whalen's forty-plus years of journals—sixty small eight-by-six-inch notebooks—have been largely inaccessible, archived in the rare book and manuscript library at the University of California, Berkeley, undigitized and unavailable online. Thus, the publication of a critical scholarly edition of Whalen's journals and notebooks constitutes an important literary event and an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers, poets, and lay readers who follow twentieth-century North American poetry.

Author Biography

Brian A. Unger is editor of Zen Monster, a literary and arts magazine.

Review

The scholarship is excellent (especially in the interspersed essays by Unger about Whalen's life) and some of the material compelling and crucial to future scholars, in particular the autobiographical sections about Whalen's difficult family life and entries written while he was on LSD." - Susan M. Schultz, author of A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Details ISBN0817360131 Author Brian Unger Short Title Bowed Some, Chanted a Little Language English ISBN-10 0817360131 ISBN-13 9780817360139 Format Paperback Subtitle Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco Renaissance Series Modern & Contemporary Poetics Imprint The University of Alabama Press Place of Publication Alabama Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2022-09-30 AU Release Date 2023-09-22 NZ Release Date 2023-09-22 Pages 364 Publisher The University of Alabama Press Edition Description New edition Year 2023 Edited by Brian Unger DEWEY 811.54 Illustrations 18 b&w figures Audience Professional & Vocational Publication Date 2023-09-30 US Release Date 2023-09-30 We've got this

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