{"id":33844,"date":"2019-03-13T14:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=33844"},"modified":"2019-03-13T14:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:42:22","slug":"cold-turkey-press-ikkyu-sojun-nine-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/03\/cold-turkey-press-ikkyu-sojun-nine-poems.html","title":{"rendered":"Cold Turkey Press: ‘Ikky\u016b Sojun Nine Poems’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Rinzai Zen master Ikky\u016b Sojun (1394-1481) was a poet, musician, artist, and rebel. He led a life of whoring and drinking. “Sex became a transcendental and sacred act,” Malcolm Ritchie<\/a> writes in an afterword to this chapbook. Ikky\u016b’s poems \u2014”often erotic, argumentative, contradictory, judgmental, self-doubting, and occasionally shaded with guilt”\u2014are still as startling as the day they were written. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cold Turkey Press<\/a>, March 2019<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The calligraphy of Ikky\u016b’s poems, in their original Chinese, is by the artist Masako Hagiwara<\/a>. The English versions by the poet Stephen Berg<\/a> are his interpretations based on scholarly translations by Sonja Arntzen<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The Rinzai Zen master Ikky\u016b Sojun (1394-1481) was a poet, musician, artist, and rebel. He led a life of whoring and drinking. “Sex became a transcendental and sacred act,” Malcolm Ritchie writes in an afterword to this chapbook. Ikky\u016b’s poems \u2014”often erotic, argumentative, contradictory, judgmental, self-doubting, and occasionally shaded with guilt”\u2014are still as startling as the day they were written. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ikkyu-combo3-4jpg-750-border.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8NS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33844"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33884,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33844\/revisions\/33884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}