The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life

by Natalie Goldberg

Hardcover, 2016

Status

Available

Publication

Shambhala (2016), 224 pages

Description

"What does it take to have a long writing life? Drawing her years of writing, teaching, and practicing Zen, Natalie Goldberg shares the experiences that have opened her to new ways of being alive, experiences that point the way forward in our lives and our writing."--Provided by publisher.

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Natalie Goldberg has always been this wonderful mishmash of an all-too-human person with a saint. And she uses this wonderful combination of self to explore writing and Zen.

Apparently, she has very quietly had an experience with cancer that brought her right to the edge of life, but she’s come
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back to center, and now she has pulled together some of her essays that all wend a bit around ideas of the return of life, the great spring. It’s a lovely collection, and I was happy to read it.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

224 p.; 5.7 inches

ISBN

1611803160 / 9781611803167

Local notes

literary studies
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