On Bear's Head

Philip Whalen

1969 First Edition (so stated), Harcourt, Brace & World/Coyote, NY

Trade Paperback, 406 pp. in printed wrappers 9 books collected plus drawings protected in a clear plastic envelope. 

Gary Snyder writes of his friend the late Zen Priest, Zenshin Philip Whalen, "Philip never left his poetry, his wit, or his critical intelligence behind; his way of poetry is a main part of his teaching.  Philip always the purest, the highest, most dry, and oddly cosmic, of all the teacher-poets I've known."