Seventy-Two Labors, Paperback

Seventy-Two Labors, a metaphor for the interconnection of all lives, sentient and insentient, could easily be titled Seventy-Two Astonishments. Poet and Zen teacher Susan KōDō Efird marshals the ordinary and extraordinary elements of our lives to send her readers in ever-expanding, ever-deepening directions. The book's three sections deliver imagination and compassion unbounded: a long poem about a radiant pot "awake on the stove;" short lyric poems in Song Cycles; and a final poem about a morning walk around her neighborhood and the Milky Way that carries us home. Humor and gratitude, shattered innocence, and reverence infuse the whole.

• Dimensions: 229 x 152
• Author: Susan KōDō Efird
• Cover type: Paperback
• Publishing Year: 2022
• Publishing Month: 11
• Pages: 78
• Language: English
• Publisher: Antrim House
• Weight: 127 g