Larry R. Smith I am an editor and reviewer and a poet, fiction writer, essayist, & publisher.

photo credit: This photo is by Jason Werling

Author Biography

I grew up in the industrial Ohio River Valley along the green Appalachian hills. I taught 3 years on high school English before returning to grad school at Kent State University and was there with my wife and daughter during the Kent State shootings.
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Influences

Zen poets of old, Kenneth Patchen, Albert Camus, Herbert Gold, Alice Munro, Sherwood Anderson, Wendell Berry

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More from Ryokan...flute and poems

Songs of the Woodcutter: Zen Poems of Wang Wei and Taigu Ryokan

by Larry R. Smith

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Artist: Larry Smith
Album: Songs of the Woodcutter: Zen Poems of Wang Wei and Taigu Ryokan
Track: 12
Length: 3:27 minutes (4.74 MB)
Format: Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)

Here are more of the poems of Taigu Ryokan, translated and read by Larry Smith with flute accompaniment by Monte Page from Songs of the Woodcutter. Enjoy. See also my new translations with Mei Hui Liu Huang...The Kanshi Poems of Taigu Ryokan.