Practicing eternity: Poems

Keenan, Terrance

Basfal Books

St. Nadie in Winter

Journey Editions

Terrance Keenan employs a unique and fresh approach to historical narrative. His prudent use of a rich collection of family documents elevates the genre to new levels of interest, reflection, and scholarship. The result is a remarkably palpable, highly accessible, and intellectually provocative reconstruction of lives lived in epochs past.Spanning a period of eighty years, the book depicts a nineteenth century New York family grappling with shifting mores, civil war, and vast change in technology, transport, culture, education, and even regional landscape. In firsthand, sometimes intimate, accounts these frontier people, business entrepreneurs―men, women and children―tell who they were, where their travels took them, what went on in their hearts and minds, and how they were affected by historical forces greater than themselves. Carefully edited diaries, letters, and journals show how greed and betrayal,trial and triumph, and star-crossed romance informed the emotional and material fortunes of the Collin/Knapp families. Here are true stories of generational conflict human relations and accomplishment shaped by time, place, custom, and kinship. This revealing, vital work will be a fulsome and entertaining experience for the general reader as well as an invaluable asset to students of American cultural history, frontier life and culture, American diaries and letters as literature, modernization, and historiography.

If Our Lives Be Spared: Three Generations of an American Family in Central New York

History

Americas

Syracuse University Press

Terry Keenan is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest who trained under Roko Jido Sherry Chayat and Eido T. Shimano Roshi. Keenan says: "I have been wanting to talk to God all my life. My grandfather said art is a way to talk to God, a nun told me monks talk to God all day. So I am an artist monk." In this moving autobiography, Keenan traces his path to Zen through his struggles with Catholicism, alcoholism and an inability to maintain an honest relationship with his wife and children. Examining reality as "the last nostalgia," this impressive and inspiring work shows how one man turned to the following Three Guides: No Blame, Be Kind, Love Everything. At the same time, Keenan examines how the individual can embrace Buddhism's foundations of no-self and impermanence. Moving, pertinent, and highly original, St. Nadie inWinter uses poetry, evocative quotations, personal story, and raw insight in the tradition of Thomas Merton to illuminate the dark corners of our lives with the light of awareness.

St. Nadie in Winter: Zen Encounters with Loneliness

Keenan, Terry

Religion & Spirituality

St. Nadie in Winter is a spiritual autobiography that includes poetry, memoir, and raw insight. There are no easy answers to be found, no easy prescriptions in this stunning twenty-first century Buddhist book. Keenan's world-his boyhood Catholicism, his alcoholism, his struggle to maintain honest relationships with his wife and children, his work as a poet and librarian, his Zen practice - offers a road map for any reader grappling with the dark night of the soul.

Buddhism

Tuttle+publishing

Embark on a poignant and sometimes comic journey through Zen, poetry, and the transformative, personal practice of writing. In Zen Encounters with Loneliness Terrance Keenan weaves together poetry, memoir, and raw insight to give voice to the lonely “nobody” in everyone. From his memories of early childhood to his struggles with addiction, writer’s block, and human relationship, Keenan delivers a heart-rending portrayal of the human hunger for selfhood and connection. Through his beautifully crafted literary reflections, he finds that Zen does not comfort our dream of being somebody, rather, it reveals connection only when we face who we really are—nobody. Zen Encounters intimately calls us to recognize that the well of emptiness is also a well of potential—to grow, learn, and overcome adversity.

Zen Encounters with Loneliness

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Wisdom Publications

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