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Availability:In StockContributor:Wayne LeePublish date:3/24/2026Pages:94
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Casa Urraca PressISBN-13:9781956375435ISBN-10:1956375430UPC:9781956375435Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Haiku, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Animals & NatureSize:8.25 x 5.50 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.114Product ID:SCZDPHZ3VB

Early in The Beautiful Foolishness is a tongue-in-cheek poem called "Ten Koans," but you quickly discover that there are far more koans in Wayne Lee's book than ten. In fact, the koan-that brief paradoxical statement used in Zen Buddhist meditation-runs throughout the book, as do Zen philosophies and haiku, of which there's an entire section. The point? To make you slow down and contemplate. Lee's poetry, widely published in journals and anthologies, here invites the reader into a world where these Asian poetic traditions meet the U.S. Southwest.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Casa Urraca PressISBN-13:9781956375435ISBN-10:1956375430UPC:9781956375435Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Haiku, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Animals & NatureSize:8.25 x 5.50 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.114Product ID:SCZDPHZ3VB
Lee, Wayne: - Wayne Lee is a writer, editor, and teacher. He has worked as a commercial fisherman in Alaska, a dancer and musician at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, an anodizing technician in Boulder, Colorado, a waiter at the Space Needle, classical music critic at the Seattle Times, managing editor of a seafood trade magazine, a fisheries marketing consultant in Indonesia, a college instructor and learning specialist, owner of a tutoring company, and a public information officer for five different government agencies. Lee's poems have appeared in Tupelo Press, Slipstream, Nimrod, The New Guard, The Lowestoft Chronicle, Writer's Digest, The California Quarterly, The New England Anthology of Poets, Poets Against the War, and many other journals and anthologies. He was awarded the 2012 Fischer Prize and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and four Best of the Net Awards. He is the founder and host of the online poetry-meditation community Tuesday Poetry Practice. He lives in Santa Fe.
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