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#252: PURSUING JAPAN.   In Karen Armstrong’s book Fields of Blood , she writes:  “In the West we see ‘religion’ as a coherent system of...

#251: TWO WORKS FROM HEIAN JAPAN.   Rather as we read Tao Yuan-Ming, the great fourth-century poet, not only for the depth of his work...

#250: LIVING THE LIVES.  Years ago, during our respective Wanderjahre , a poet-friend, Joyce Rankin, said to me, “Do you find your...