A sense of the whole : reading Gary Snyder's Mountains and rivers without end / edited by Mark Gonnerman.
| Other author | Gonnerman, Mark, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Berkeley : Counterpoint, [2015] |
| Description | x, 352 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | IntroductIon -- Cultivating a sense of the whole : Gary Snyder's Mountains and rivers without end / Mark Gonnerman -- Opening conversation / Gary Snyder & Jack Shoemaker -- Hearing native voices. The other's voice : cultural imperialism and poetic impersonality in Gary Snyder's Mountains and rivers without end / Tim Dean ; Dharma shoot-out at the OK Dairy : some angles and aspects of imagination in Gary Snyder's Mountains and rivers without end / Jim Dodge ; Gary Snyder and the renewal of oral culture / David Abram -- MakIng PacIfIc Rim connectIons. Mountains and rivers without end and Japanese Nō Theater : a quest for a new humanity / Katsunori Yamazato ; Mountains and rivers and Japan / Nanao Sakaki -- ExplorIng poetIc roots. Some interim thoughts about Gary Snyder's Mountains and rivers without end / Wendell Berry ; Proceeding by clues : reading Mountains and rivers without end / Robert Hass ; Thoughts on Mountains and rivers without end / Michael McClure -- Engaging Buddhist perspectives. Buddhism in Mountains and rivers without end / Carl Bielefeldt ; Heart to heart : instructions in nonduality / Stephanie Kaza -- Interview. "The space goes on" : a conversation about Mountains and rivers without end / Gary Snyder with Eric Todd Smith -- Appendices. Maha Prajñā Pāramitā Hṛdaya Sūtra heart of the "Gone-beyond-wisdom Sūtra" ; Mountains and rivers without end : notes for some of the poems / Gary Snyder ; Fieldwork : Gary Snyder, libraries, and book learning / Mark Gonnerman. |
| Abstract | "In 1997, Mark Gonnerman organized a yearlong research workshop on Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End at the Stanford Humanities Center. Members of what came to be known among faculty, students, and diverse community members as the Mountains & Rivers Workshop met regularly to read and discuss Snyder's epic poem. Here the poem served as a commons that turned the multiversity into a university once again, if only for a moment. The Workshop invited writers, teachers and scholars from Northern California and Japan to speak on various aspects of Snyder's great accomplishment. This book captures the excitement of these gatherings and invites readers to enter the poem through essays and talks by David Abram, Wendell Berry, Carl Bielefeldt, Tim Dean, Jim Dodge, Robert Hass, Stephanie Kaza, Julia Martin, Michael McClure, Nanao Sakaki, and Katsunori Yamazato. It includes an interview with Gary Snyder, appendices, and other resources for further study. Snyder once introduced a reading of this work with reference to whitewater rapids, saying most of his writing is like a Class III run where you will do just fine on your own, but that Mountains and Rivers is more like Class V: if you're going to make it to take-out, you need a guide. As a collection of commentaries and background readings, this companion volume enhances each reader's ability to find their way into and through an adventurous and engaging work of art. "-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Frontispiece: photo of Gary Snyder's library on his Kitkitdizze homestead in the Sierra Nevada foothills. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-327) and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| LCCN | 2014036209 |
| ISBN | 9781619024564 hardcover |
| ISBN | 161902456X hardcover |