With poems from spiritual teachers to jazz musicians, from the monastery to the street, What Book!? brings together a broad range of verse, expressions of living in an awakened way. "A poet once located poetry as somewhere before or after words take place. Mindfulness is the practice of finding that realm, dwelling there, and cultivating the ability to live completely in the present, deeply aware and appreciative of life." - from the author's Preface.

What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop, Gary Gach (editor), Parallax Press, Paperback, 272 pages, $15.00

Gary Gregory Gach is an American author, translator, editor, and teacher living in San Francisco. His work has been translated into several languages, and has appeared in several anthologies and numerous periodicals. He has hosted Zen Mindfulness Fellowship weekly for 12 years, and he swims in the San Francisco Bay.