| A Congregation of Cows: Moo Haiku Contributor(s): Altman, Nathaniel (Foreword by), Wald Ph. D., Miriam (Contribution by), Epstein, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1733597921 ISBN-13: 9781733597920 Publisher: Middle Island Press OUR PRICE: $13.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2019 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 5" W x 8" (0.28 lbs) 120 pages |
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| Publisher Description: There they are, dotting the hillsides and plains all across the country. Other than children in the backseats of cars or vans, few notice the wide-eyed cows and calves that lumber innocently along their self-created paths behind barbed wire. The lives of cows are quiet and uneventful. Or are they? These precious bovines are not just fodder for meat or leather; they are precious beings--as are all animals, birds and fish--regarded by many Hindus in India as sacred. How can anyone even think of killing it? No cow is an it; every cow is a she. What can we learn from the gentleness of bovines in our mist? Bashō, the father of Japanese haiku, said: "Go to the pine to learn from the pine." In the same spirit, I say: "Open your heart to the cows and deepen your capacity for kindness and ahimsa (harmlessness)."in that other world moo means mu*sweet grassa newborn calfnuzzling her mother*her face, her gazethat one could bemy mother now*freeway driveif I could, I would jointhe congregation of cows |