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Joel\u2019s poems reveal a man\u2019s life lived not in a chair as spectator, but in travel, physical labor, attending to and repairing the broken and outworn. He takes us into the heart of Chinese, Japanese, Native American and Buddhist landscapes, paying attention to a \u201crock in shadows,\u201d a stick of bamboo, a bent nail or a grasshopper. He reminds us of the power of the particular. What a collection (and covering all four seasons) from soldiering \u201cin a freezing wind,\u201d loving women, children, the Tao, to the wonders of Nature, such as trees, grasshoppers & \u00a0Earth.\u00a0Joel\u2019s unique way sparks the imagination and I bow to his wisdom. One of the shortest poem in this wonderful collection reads: \u00a0\u201cLucky cat,\u00a0stretching in the sun,\u00a0knows where it itches.\u201d Joel Weishaus\u2019s poems will turn you into that lucky cat; his writing is solar, and he shows us where it itches.\u00a0 Without sentimentality, Joel Weishaus honours the beauty of the everyday, inspiring the reader to make peace with life, no matter how difficult life seems. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joel Weishaus
\n \u2014Dennis Patrick Slattery, author of\u00a0The Beauty Between Words: Collected Poems<\/em><\/strong>, and\u00a0Just Below the Water Line: Selected Poems<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n \u2014David H. Rosen, M.D., is the author of ten books, most recently,\u00a0Clouds and More Clouds<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n \u2014Ginette Paris, author of (most recently)\u00a0Heartbreak: New Approaches to Healing<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\n \u2014Laurence Coupe, author of\u00a0Beat Sound, Beat Vision: The Beat Spirit and Popular Song<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Joel Weishaus was born in Brooklyn, New York. At age 19, he was a Jr. Executive on Madison Ave. He quit when he was 21, and a few years later moved to San Francisco, where he edited\u00a0On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(City Lights, 1971). His translation,\u00a0<\/strong>Oxherding: A Reworking of the Zen Text<\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0with Block Prints by Arthur Okamura, was published by the Cranium Press. (San Francisco, 1971.) He moved to New Mexico in 1977, where he wrote the Introduction and Notes to Thomas Merton\u2019s\u00a0Woods, Shore, Desert<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Museum of New Mexico, 1983). Weishaus was an Adjunct Curator at the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and a Writer-in-Residence at UNM\u2019s Center for Southwest Research. His book,\u00a0The Healing Spirit of Haiku<\/em><\/strong>, co-authored with David Rosen and illustrated by Arthur Okamura, was published by North Atlantic in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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