The Gary Snyder reader : prose, poetry, and translations, 1952-1998.

Author/creator Snyder, Gary, 1930-
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Counterpoint, ©1999.
Descriptionxxii, 617 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Snyder, Gary, 1930-
Poets, American--20th century. --Correspondence.
Environmentalists--United States. --Biography.
Chinese poetry--Translations into English.
Poets, American--20th century. --Interviews.
Poets, American--20th century. --Diaries.
Beats (Persons)--Interviews.
Beats (Persons)--Poetry.
Zen poetry, American.

Uniform titleWorks. Selections
Contents Foreword / Jim Dodge -- Author's Note -- Prose -- from Earth House Hold -- Lookout's Journal -- Japan First Time Around -- Spring Sesshin at Shokoku-ji -- Buddhism and the Possibilities of a Planetary Culture -- Passage to More Than India -- Poetry and the Primitive -- Suwa-no-se Island and the Banyan Ashram -- from He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village -- The Myth -- Function of the Myth -- from The Real Work -- The East West Interview -- from Passage Through India -- The Cambodge -- Pondicherry -- Khajuraho -- Dharamshala -- Dalai Lama -- Letters -- to Philip Whalen (1954-1961) -- to Will Petersen (1957-1958) -- from The Practice of the Wild -- The Etiquette of Freedom -- The Place, the Region, and the Commons -- Blue Mountains Constantly Walking -- Ancient Forests of the Far West -- Grace -- from A Place in Space -- Smokey the Bear Sutra -- Four Changes, with a Postscript -- "Energy Is Eternal Delight" -- Unnatural Writing -- The Porous World -- Coming into the Watershed -- Kitkitdizze: A Node in the Net -- from The Great Clod Project -- "Wild" in China -- Walls Within Walls -- The Brush -- The Paris Review Interview -- Selections from Journals -- Japan, "Of All the Wild Sakura" -- Australia -- Ladakh -- Botswana and Zimbabwe -- Uncollected Essays -- Walking the Great Ridge Omine on the Womb-Diamond Trail -- Walking Downtown Naha -- Is Nature Real? -- Entering the Fiftieth Millenium -- from Riprap -- Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout -- Piure Creek -- Milton by Firelight -- Above Pate Valley.
Review "This collection gathers the essays, travel journals, letters, poems, and translations of one of the influential voices of the twentieth century." "Gary Snyder has been a cultural force in America for five decades - prizewinning poet, environmental activist, Zen Buddhist, earth-householder, and reluctant counterculture guru. Having expanded far beyond the Beat scene that first brought his work to the public ear and eye, Snyder has produced a broad-ranging body of work that encompasses his fluency in Eastern literature and culture, his commitment to the environment, and his concepts of humanity's place in the cosmos."--Jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Snyder, Gary, 1930- Selections. 1999. Gary Snyder reader. Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, ©1999
LCCN 99020918
ISBN1887178902 (alk. paper)
ISBN9781887178907 (alk. paper)
ISBN1582430799
ISBN9781582430799
ISBN9781619020627
ISBN1619020629

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Joyner General Stacks PS3569.N88 A6 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold