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Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades—prize-winning 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.Prose selections include journals from his travels to Saigon, Singapore, Kyoto, Ceylon, New Delhi, and Dharamshala; key interviews from the East West Journal and The Paris Review, meditations on Buddhism and the surrender of self; a cultural survey of communal living; and notes from the lookout tower on Sourdough Mountain, where in stark isolation Snyder once watched for forest fires.The Reader gathers poems from each phase of Snyder’s long career—from his fist collection, Riprap, to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Turtle Island, through his epic poem cycle that was forty years in the making, Mountains and Rivers Without End.From freighter to firetower, Zendo to Himalayan mountain ridge, Snyder’s writings reflect a lifetime of study, journey, and the practice of everyday mindfulness. Gary Snyder has witnessed and captured our culture at the hinge of change and—time and again—his work has transformed us just as it has altered our understanding of literature and place in a purposeful life.
Hardcover: 640 pages
Publisher: Counterpoint; 2 edition (October 16, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1619020629
ISBN-13: 978-1619020627
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.8 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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It's a joy to have so much of Gary Snyder's work —both poetry and prose — in one place. I open this book at random several times a week and always find something compelling. I've given this book to many people.
I just received this book and find it entirely identical, apart from the cloth cover, to the paperback edition of 2000. It is a great collection of Snyder's poetry and prose, but it should be called a re-issue rather than a 2012 edition.
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