Buddha, Proof is a funny, smart book, a Minnesota Book Award Finalist republished by Red Dragonfly Press in a new, expanded edition with twice as many poems. Buddha befriends Barbie, shops at Target, rides roller coasters, contemplates the complete perfection of toast. "The poems are a fresh encounter with the Buddha, with his perceptive eye, brought right up into our contemporary American cultural landscape, with his customary humor and gravity" (Joyce Kennedy). These imaginative poems meet him on the Western road and "invite the Buddha into our lives as someone with whom we might at last have something in common" (Lawrence Sutin). Premised on questions of purpose, suffering, and compassion, these are whimsical and thoughtful poems you're likely to remember a long time.