Poetry. PATHWAYS draws together a selection of Edith Shiffert's poems spanning six decades. The poems relect moments of transcendence, pathways through inner and outer landscapes, and the Buddhist and Taoist sensibilities in which she has immersed herself. "Behind her best poems is the echo of the Bodhisattva Vow, and at the same time the realization that all the combinations called reality are fleeting by nature"--Kenneth Rexroth. Edith Shiffert has lived in Kyoto, Japan, since 193 and is the author of 11 collections of poetry.