What is the nature of the bioregion known as Cascadia? How is this insight expressed by the people who live, work, practice, and play here? Is there a connection between Zen practice, broadly construed, and the Cascadia bioregion? If so, what is it? Who have been the teachers in the relatively short time that Zen has been known in this bioregion? What role does water play here, more so than in other bioregions and what implications does that have for the people who live here, for their practice?
It is these questions and related questions that we seek to explore in the work Cascadian Zen, edited by Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, Paul E. Nelson, and Adelia MacWilliam, with Theresa Whitehill. Volume Two of The Cascadian Zen Anthology project is a completion of the project begun in Volume one, bringing together nonfiction, poetry, interviews, translations, and artwork that explore expressions of Zen within the Cascadia Bioregion.
Listen to an interview about the book with the editors. (Read the interview transcript.)
Jason Wirth speaks here on February 4, 2022 about the book’s structure:
CASCADIAN ZEN
Edited by PAUL E. NELSON, JASON M. WIRTH, ADELIA MACWILLIAM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BASKET FOUR: Borders Without Binaries
Deborah Poe
Deborah Woodard
Edward Dorn
Briony Penn
Claudia Castro Luna
Christine Lowther
C.W. Buckley
Jerry Martien
Ursula Vaira
Theresa Whitehill
Koon Woon
Jayne Marek
Fiona Tinwei Lam
Stephen Collis
Gerard Kuperus
Matt Trease
John Olson
Tim Lilburn
Lorin Medley
Bob Rose
Jordan Abel
Fred Wah
John Brandi
BASKET FIVE: Wilson’s Bowl
Phyllis Webb
Stephen Collis
Wilson Duff
Colin Browne
BASKET SIX: Issei Zen
Paul E Nelson
Barbara Johns
Mike Dillon
Sharon Hashimoto
BASKET SEVEN: Storm Clouds
Briony Penn
Carletta Carrington Wilson
Robert Lashley
Rob Lewis
Maiah Merino
Meredith Quartermain
Barry McKinnon
Sharon Thesen
Joanne Arnott
Susan Kay Anderson
Diana Elser
CAConrad
Zoe Landale
Ann Graham Walker
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Contributing Artists
Rick Bartow
Cate Gable
Joan Giannecchini
Ramon Kubicek
Elaine Parks
Dennis Parks
Susan Point
Richard Wagener
Nathan Wirth
