I WISH TO THANK Jan Best, who once again typed the manuscript from the original handwritten pages; Jean Leyshon, my assistant and also a long-time student of Katagiri Roshi; Kate Green, for being my main reader; John Thorndike, for his initial comments on Part I; Geneen Roth and Laura Davis, who also read Part I; the Minneapolis Public Library, for tracking down the Brautigan poem; Richard Chakrin, an old friend from Mr. Cates’s class; Robert Handleman, who lived on my block in Farmingdale; Brett Gadbois, an old friend and early teacher of writing and practice; Tomoe Katagiri and the sangha of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, and also the sangha of everyone, wherever you are, and of all things; and Jonathon Lazear, my agent, and Toni Burbank, my editor.
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Grateful acknowledgement is made for the permission to reprint from the following: “The Memoirs of Jesse James,” copyright © 1970 by Richard Brautigan. Reprinted by permission of The Helen Brann Agency, Inc.; Excerpt from “The Wanderer Returned” from Fully Empowered by Pablo Neruda. Translation copyright © 1975 by Alistair Reid, Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, Inc.; No. 22 from “Mountains and Waters Sutra” from Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen, edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi. Copyright © 1985 by the San Francisco Zen Center. Published by North Point Press and reprinted by permission of Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, Inc.; “The Crow That Visited Was Flying Backwards,” copyright © 1984 by John Brandi. Reprinted with permission of Tooth of Time Books, Inc.; “Simply snow falls” haiku from Inch by Inch. Reprinted by permission of Tooth of Time Books, Inc.; “Late Fragment” from A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver, copyright © 1989 by the estate of Raymond Carver. Reprinted with permission of Atlantic Monthly Press; Poem by Katagiri Roshi in Wind Bell, twenty-fifth anniversary issue, copyright © 1986. Reprinted by permission of the San Francisco Zen Center.
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