[Buddha-l] About Gary Snyder--article in New Yorker

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Monday 27 October 2008 09:01:16 Jackhat1 at aol.com wrote:

> I would count Philip  Whalen and Diana Di Prima among those who have
> written really good poems  with dharma in mind.
> ======
> Leonard Cohen. 

Yes, of course. He has the added advantage of being Canadian and Jewish. Can't 
get more vrai Buddhist than that! And who but a Buddhist could write

"I fought against the bottle,
But I had to do it drunk.
Took the Diamond Sutra to the pawnshop,
but that don't mean it's junk."

-- 
Richard