Poetry. With this volume, Tinfish Press moves from its usual concentration on the Pacific as a cultural and historical space to that of a spiritual trans-historical one. In his preface to the book, Zen priest Norman Fischer writes: "JAMMED TRANSMISSION is a poetic encounter with a 14th century text of Japanese Soto Zen, Keizan Jokin's Denkoroku (usually translated as Record of the Transmission of the Light), a spiritual genealogy of the Soto lineage, beginning with the Buddha and ending with Koun Ejo, Keizan's immediate predecessor in the lineage, fifty-two generations later."

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JAMMED TRANSMISSION is Paul Naylor's third full-length book of poetry, following PLAYING WELL WITH OTHERS (2004) and ARRANGING NATURE (2006). He is also the author of Poetic Investigations: Singing the Holes in History (1999), a study of five contemporary poets, including Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Lyn Hejinian and Kamau Brathwaite. A recovering academic, Naylor lives in San Diego, California, where he directs Singing Horse Press.