"A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen" by Robert Aitken Roshi

Robert Aitken (1978), A Zen Wave Buddhism
The sound of water: Robert Aitken (1978), A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen, New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill.

Originally presented as Zen talks, Robert Aitken's warmly informed commentaries on Basho's haiku confound our expectations for a nullifying Zen and the experience of haiku as being "pecked to death by doves".


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