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    Breaths
    Breaths
    Breaths
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    Breaths

    By Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz and Yoshiko Shimano

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    Breaths is a poetic exploration of Budo (the Japanese martial arts) and Zen. It delves into the relationship between these two traditions and projects their spirit onto the textures of everyday life. The poems balance action, energy, meditation, and contemplation on how to live attentively and actively in the world. Accompanied by Yoshiko Shimano’s eloquent prints, these poems will energize and captivate readers while inviting them to seek their own paths to illumination.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
    Release dateMar 15, 2012
    ISBN9780826350718
    Breaths
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    Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz

    Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico.

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      Breaths - Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz

      breaths

      Mary Burritt

      Christiansen

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      HILDA RAZ, Series Editor

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      breaths

      ELEUTERIO SANTIAGO-DÍAZ

      PRINTS BY YOSHIKO SHIMANO

      FOREWORD BY V. B. PRICE

      INTRODUCTION BY CLAUDE-RHÉAL MALARY

      UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS

      Albuquerque

      © 2012 by Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz

      Prints © 2012 by Yoshiko Shimano

      All rights reserved. Published 2012

      Printed in the United States of America

      17 16 15 14 13 12   1 2 3 4 5 6

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Santiago-Díaz, Eleuterio.

      Breaths / Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz ; prints by Yoshiko Shimano;

      foreword by V.B. Price; introduction by Claude-Rhéal Malary.

      p. cm.—(Mary Burritt Christiansen poetry series)

      Includes bibliographical references.

      Poems.

      ISBN 978-0-8263-5070-1 (pbk.: alk. paper)

      ISBN 978-0-8263-5071-8 (electronic)

      I. Shimano, Yoshiko.

      II. Price, V. B. (Vincent Barrett)

      III. Malary, Claude-Rhéal.

      IV. Title.

      PS3619.A579B74 2012

      811'.6—dc23

      2011042258

      The publication of Breaths was made possible by the support of

      Associate Dean Phillip (Felipe) Gonzales and partial funding from the

      Faculty Publications Subvention Fund in the College of Arts and Sciences

      and the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico.

      Book Design

      Text font: 10/14 Garamond Premier Pro

      Display font: Perpetua

      Contents

      FOREWORD

      INTRODUCTION

      NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

      In the Gaze of the Tiger

      Seeking

      Body and Soul in a Bite

      The Wisdom on My Skin

      Death in the Way

      On Different Pages

      Just as in Aikidō

      Only a Dream

      A Matter of Time

      STROKES

      I

      II

      III

      Matches and Clashes

      Waters

      First Clay

      FALSE VIRTUES AND COMFORT ZONES

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      VI

      The Real Thing (a Parable with Two Endings)

      Catching Up with an Ushiro-geri

      The Meaning of a Belt

      Unsolicited Advice

      Awake

      In the Cell

      Blue Permanence

      Dreams Never Dreamt

      Hour of the Angelus

      False Allegory (Koan II)

      Spelling the Pitch of Time

      The Seventh Secret

      Images of Our Time

      Abandoned

      Primordial Cry

      The Realm of Empty Hand

      RHYMES

      Open Sky

      Silent Word

      Ki

      Resolution

      Bleeding Moon

      Bleeding Moon II

      New Awakening

      Inner Blossom

      Spinning Sideways

      Deceit

      To a Young Palestinian Woman

      The Song

      Pages Fall

      Pietas

      Paintings and Painters

      The Worm

      Parlous Objects

      FALSE VIRTUES AND COMFORT ZONES

      VII

      VIII

      IX

      X

      XI

      Kojiro’s Hiatus

      The Boxer’s Hiatus

      Tibetan Light

      Before the Wind

      Solitude and the Sword

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