Description: Looks at Buddhist influences in American literature and how literature has shaped the reception of Buddhism in North America.
Review Quotes:
"This collection offers an excellent and newly renovated place from which to continue the study of Buddhism in American literature. It will become an essential critical volume." -- Religion and the Arts
"...signals a significant turn in critical understanding of Buddhism in U.S. literature--one whose methodology emphasizes the groundlessness shared by Buddhism and contemporary literature studies while also grounding itself, necessarily so, in the ways in which Buddhism is shaped by the particularities of history." -- Beat Studies
"...a thought-provoking analysis of the myriad ways American literature has contributed to our Buddhist practice and vice versa." -- Tricycle
"...a groundbreaking anthology of critical writings making vital new connections between buddhadharma and American literature..." -- Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly
"This book in your hands is a trove of the best we can do to put the Dharma into words." -- from the Foreword by Maxine Hong Kingston