{"product_id":"city-of-dark-woods","title":"City of Dark Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Hirschfield\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born the year World War Two broke out. He grew up in the Bronx, New York’s highest borough, whose winds still blow through many of his haiku. Perhaps because of the carnage that accompanied his birth, he spent many years as a journalist covering uprisings in Latin America, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (focusing on peace activists in both camps), The Troubles in Northern Ireland, the insurrection against the monarchy in Nepal. To help pay the rent, Hirschfield took a job as a case manager for an agency providing housing for mentally-challenged homeless people. Haiku came in the form of a gift a woman gave him: Lucien Stryk’s Zen \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems of China and Japan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. One poem in particular changed his life. It was written by Zen Master Dogen: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe world? Moonlit\/ Drops shaken\/ From the crane’s bill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. He was brought into haiku’s mystery of moments. He didn’t begin writing haiku immediately, but more and more, he began living in its space, with its of echoes of impermanence. When he did finally put pencil to paper, he was not a young man, but an old man made young by the slide of handfuls of words emptying into ageless silence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red River","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43361988575267,"sku":null,"price":349.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/61XB9EXJe_L._SL1200.jpg?v=1784359745","url":"https:\/\/champaca.in\/products\/city-of-dark-woods","provider":"Champaca Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}