The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse.'-Kyoto JournalThe Zen master and mountain hermit Stonehouse-considered one of the greatest Chinese Buddhist poets-used poetry as his medium of instruction. Near the end of his life, monks asked him to record what he found of interest on his mountain; Stonehouse delivered to them hundreds of poems and an admonition: 'Do not to try singing these poems. Only if you sit on them will they do you any good.'Newly re