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No One Can Stem the Tide: Selected Poetry 1931-1991 by Jane Tyson Clement

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5.0

"the past is our music, our essential air,
earth of our spirit, deep sea of our mind,
and out of its return we know, we learn."
Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women: An Anthology by

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5.0

"toward thin ice
my shadow moves, moves
till it’s drowned"

Beautiful collection with brief but informative profiles of the backgrounds and personalities of the featured women
How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China by Morten Schlütter

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5.0

This book gives a good amount of context on Zen. Particularly interesting, are the chapters elaborating on the Doctrinal disputes between Linji and Caodong (equivalent to the rinzai and soto schools), through the perspectives of Dahui Zonggao and Hongzhi, two men that are respectively very significant representatives of these schools.

Additionally, the economic and political realities of Zen are talked of in a way that's very informative.

This book is pretty coherent without previous familiarity of the figures discussed, but obviously this is pretty academic take that assumes certain understandings