{"product_id":"stone-nest-9781962082990","title":"Stone Nest","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of the ancient Chinese poets who went to the mountains to be closer to nature and themselves, Richard Collins delivers these dispatches from his mountain retreat called Stone Nest in Sewanee, Tennessee. As a Zen monk, teacher, and abbot, Collins pays tribute and attention to the art of nature and the nature of art, always with a questioning sensibility that asks: what more do the voices of mountains and waters have to tell us? How can we listen to and truly see what is all around us? How can we live our lives with authenticity and daring, yet with compassion and concern for all beings, sentient or not? \u003cem\u003eStone Nest \u003c\/em\u003eexplores the seasons of the mind and its responses to the seasons of a particular patch of land and the journey one has taken in time and space to settle there. How do poetry and painting, philosophy and religion, sensation and memory distort and disclose the gifts of the natural environment? The title captures the kind of comfort we can expect when we make a rugged landscape our home and meditation hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollins, Richard:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Richard Collins taught at universities in the United States, Wales, Romania, and Bulgaria before retiring as Dean Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at California State University Bakersfield. He spent a decade at Louisiana State University (where he was the first faculty advisor for New Delta Review) and a decade at Xavier University of Louisiana (where he edited the Xavier Review). He has been a Fulbright researcher in London and Fulbright senior lecturer at the Universities of Bucharest and Timişoara, as well as a Leverhulme Fellow in Wales. He has translated poetry from Romanian and books from French, including Taisen Deshimaru's Autobiography of a Zen Monk (Hohm Press, 2022) and Philippe Coupey's Zen Fragments: Teachings and Reflections of a Zen Monk in Paris (Hohm Press, 2024). He also edited Deshimaru's Mushotoku Mind: The Heart of the Heart Sutra (Hohm Presss, 2012). His own books include John Fante: A Literary Portrait (Guernica Editions, 2000), No Fear Zen: Discovering Balance in an Unbalanced World (Hohm Press, 2015), and In Search of the Hermaphrodite: A Memoir (Tough Poets Press, 2024). Since 2016 he has been abbot of the New Orleans Zen Temple and now resides in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he directs Stone Nest Zen Dojo.","brand":"Shanti Arts LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676206334226,"sku":"9781962082990","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_43f72466-e158-4d12-bed3-97120ff196ba.jpg?v=1761049661","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stone-nest-9781962082990","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}