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Article: Beat Zen, square Zen, and Zen. (Zen Buddhism as practiced in China, Japan and the US)
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- Chicago Review
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- June 22, 1996
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The Summer 1958 issue of Chicago Review was mostly given to a special section, "On Zen," comprised of contributions by Daisetz T. Suzuki, Shinichi Hisamatsu (Hoseki), Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder, and Akihisa Kondo, among others. The issue included Jack Kerouac's "Meditation in the Woods," excerpted from his forthcoming novel, The Dharma Bums. PAUL CARROLL remembers how this particular editorial agenda was established:
In the summer of 1957 Irving Rosenthal offered me the job of Guest Poetry Editor on the Review. The title had been cooked up, he explained, because technically I was ineligible, having left the midway a few years before. I remember him saying he wanted ...