0586sm Confucious, in a statement noted by Ezra Pound and later Gary Snyder, wrote: "In hewing an axe-handle, how do you proceed? Without [another] axe it cannot be done." Thus it is with poets and poetry––the model is in your hands, not far off. The art of poetry is the subject of MAP's Legacy Transmissions and Postbeat Poets Activist Scholarship pages.

Allen Ginsberg and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Spring 1973. [Allen Ginsberg Trust]


 

Legacy Transmissions

Postbeat Poets Activist Scholarship