The Narrow Roads Of Japan Author:Norman Fischer Poetry. This book of poetry and prose evokes Matsuo Basho's NARROW ROADS TO THE DEEP NORTH in an engaging text which is not at all imitative, but is, instead, an homage to that classic work. "So many photographs even the good ones all look alike. Gardener on a small iron stepladder. Carp in pond really huge, so pond is small. Why write thes... more »e things down, for whose pleasure or edification? Mind just goes on up to a point. The surrounding people and objects make me what I am an outline that describes an area inside I miss my wife and children" ("October 15, 1989. Yaizu"). Norman Fisher is the author of DEVICES, ON WHETHER OR NOT TO BELIEVE YOUR OWN MIND and PRECISELY THE POINT BEING MADE among other books. He is Co-Abbot of the Zen Center, in San Francisco and Green Gulch Farm in Marin.« less