The River of Heaven: The Haiku of Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki - Robert Aitken

Robert Aitken is the author of more than a dozen books about Buddhism, including A Zen Wave , Encouraging Words , and Taking the Path of Zen . A dedicated Buddhist for most of his life, he is a former abbot and roshi of the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in Hawaii, which he co-founded with his late wife Anne Hopkins Aitken in 1959. He now lives in retirement at the Palolo Zen Center in Honolulu.