Where I Came Here From

<p>Where I Came Here From is a collection of Zen Buddhist inspired poems that occasionally wander a path to the north-to Iceland Christopher Burawa's birthplace. The Iceland poems reflect as Cynthia Hogue suggests an Icelandic Zen of the Self examining itself unearthing what remains of his connections to the past and the trauma of separation of being caught in the illusion of the fixated isolated self. In these poems he follows the schematics of the skandhas and dependent origination tracing the activity of mind and as the reborn self that arises from its dwelling.</p>