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Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death -- Yoel Hoffmann, Paperback Coloring and Design Books From the New York Times"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries old tradition