Jammed Transmission : Poems

Poetry. With this volume, Tinfish Press moves from its usual concentration on the Pacific as a cultural and historical space to that of a spiritual trans-historical one.

In his preface to the book, Zen priest Norman Fischer writes: "JAMMED TRANSMISSION is a poetic encounter with a 14th century text of Japanese Soto Zen, Keizan Jokin's Denkoroku (usually translated as Record of the Transmission of the Light), a spiritual genealogy of the Soto lineage, beginning with the Buddha and ending with Koun Ejo, Keizan's immediate predecessor in the lineage, fifty-two generations later."