| | Heart of Bamboo Poetry & Music in the Zen Traditi: A Listener's Guide to the Poetry of Sam Hamill (Listener's Guide Series) by Sam Hamill, Elizabeth Falconer, Christipher Yohmei Blasdel, Copper Canyon Press Audio, 32 Pages, Published 2000 by Copper Canyon Press Audiobook, Cd ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-999-6, ISBN: 1-55659-999-4
"Sam Hamill reads poems and translations to the traditional and improvised melodies of the Japanese bamboo flute (shakuhachi) played by Christopher Yohmei Blasdel and the thirteen-stringed koto played by Elizabeth Falconer. Thebooklet contains two essays by Hamill: "Listening in the Zen Tradition," and "Editing by Ear." "The roots of poetry inevitably return us to music," Hamill writes. "All peotry aspires to the conditions of music."Sam ..."
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