SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Book Titles

RETURN TO STILLNESS:Twenty Years with a Tai Chi Master,  Marlowe & Co., 2003

CELTIC HIGHWAY: Poems & Texts,  Ekstasis, 2002

GIVING UP POETRY: WITH ALLEN GINSBERG AT HOLLYHOCK, Banff Centre Press, 2001.

THE PILLOW BOOK OF DR. JAZZ: Travels Along Asia's Dharma Trail, Sydney: Anchor, 1999

THE SUPREME WAY: Inner Secrets of the Southern Mountain Tao, Loy Ching-Yuen, trans. with Du Liang. Berkeley: North Atlantic, 1997

BIG WHISKERS SAVES THE COVE, Vancouver: Concorde, 1995

THE COLOURS OF HEAVEN: STORIES FROM THE PACIFIC RIM, New York & Toronto: Vintage, l992

Feature Essays & Interviews

"A Conversation With Andrew Schelling", Beatscene, Winter 2003.

Interview: "On Compassion and Forgiveness: H.H. the Dalai Lama, Verbatim" The Bloomsbury Review, Sept. /01

"Expatriate Passions": A Conversation with Donald Richie", The Bloomsbury Review, Mar-Apr. /01

"Embracing the Responsibility of the Moment: An Interview with Jerry Brown". Cover feature, Shambhala Sun, Sept. /00

Two essays in tribute, compiled in NANAO OR NEVER,festschrift for Nanao Sakaki. Gary Lawless, ed. Nobleboro, Maine: Blackberry, /00

"Ash Wednesday: Buddhist Reflections On Christian Mindfulness". Essay. The Outlook, Feb./00

"Notes from the Gone World: Lawrence Ferlinghetti On Street Smarts & The Poetry Rebellion", Common Ground, December/95; Tokyo: Printed Matter, Vol. XX, No.1

"An Interview With Robert Aitken, Roshi", Shambhala Sun, Jan. /96

"Wild Medicine: The Masterwork of Gary Snyder", cover feature profile & interview, Shambhala Sun, April/96

Essay: "John, Yoko and the Great Western Cultural Revolution," Kyoto Journal, No. 31, Spring/96

"From The Healing Place," feature profile on artist Arnold Shives, Arts Alive, Jan./96

"The Mindfulness Bell"; feature profile, Thich Nhat Hanh, Shambhala Sun, Jan./96

"NeoBeat: Toward The Birth Of A New Cool", Shambhala Sun, July/94; Tokyo: Blue Beat Jacket, #6 /94; Tokyo: Printed Matter, Winter /94

"John Lennon: In Memorium", Common Ground, Dec./'84 *

Critical Reviews

Review: Stages of Meditation and Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of Great Perfection, H.H. the Dalai Lama, Snow Lion. (The Bloomsbury Review, Sept. /01)

Rev. A Theory of Everything, Ken Wilber, Shambhala. (The Bloomsbury Review, 09/01)

Feature length rev. "The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa," trans.Garma Chang. Shambhala. (Manoa, Winter/00)

Feature rev. "An Affinity for the Sacred": Stormy Weather, A Biography of Frederick H.Varley, Maria Tippet, M & S. (Arts Alive, Jan. /99)

Rev. Virgin Widows, Gu Hua, trans. H. Goldblatt (New Asia Review, Vol. 3.No.2, /97)

Rev. Buddhist Women On The Edge, ed. Marianne Dresser. (Shambhala Sun, March /97)

Rev. "From Zen to First Nations: the world's interconnected Sacraments." Mountains and Rivers Without End, by Gary Snyder (Vancouver Sun, Jan. 11/97)

Rev. Cultivating The Mind Of Love, Thich Nhat Hanh, (New Asia Review, Spring /96)

Feature length critical essay: "The Arrival of Modern Fiction from China": The Three Inch Golden Lotus, Feng Jicai; The Remote Country of Women, Bai Hua & Chaos And All That, Liu Sola (Modern Chinese Literature, Winter '94, Vol. 8, No. 3)

Rev. The Redesigned Forest, Chris Maser , (Common Ground, Spring/90)

Miscellaneous

THE MUSIC OF THE STONES: Commissioned performance work for the Community Arts Council of Vancouver. Libretto text, with music by Mark Armanini. CD archival recording, Dec./00

THE HEALING PLACE: Invitational short opera, libretto-text, with music by Mark Armanini, for The Vancouver Opera; performance, Vancouver Civic Art Gallery, Summer/92. CD archival recording, "Imagistic Music", Dec./00

ECHOES AFTER THE STORM: Catalogue Foreword, "Echoes After The Storm: Tienanmen Memorial Art Exhibition." Translation. Vancouver-Hong Kong-New York.

"Private Conscience and State Security", PEN International Congress Report on Proceedings. Toronto; Sept. 26, '89)

Trans.of poetry by Thich Tue Sy, incl. in WHAT BOOK!? BUDDHA POEMS FROM BEAT TO HIPHOP, ed. Gary Gach. Berkeley: Parallax, Oct. /99

William Burroughs Celebratory Exhibition, Memoir Manuscript Exhibit (Holograph); Grunt Galley, Vancouver, June /99

Translations of poems by Kim Chi-Ha: "Tomorrow's Thirst: A Brief Introduction to Modern Korean Poetry," ed. Walter Lew. Poetry Society of America publication, Nov./96. Collaboration with W. Lew & Jane K. Kwon.

Travel Meditation: "A Desert Mantra", Common Ground, Sept./95