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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780679742524
ISBN: 0679742522
Label: Pantheon
Manufacturer: Pantheon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: September 07, 1993
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date: September 07, 1993
Studio: Pantheon
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"The greatest of living nature poets. . . . It helps us to go on, having Gary Snyder in our midst."--Los Angeles Times. Snyder is the author of many volumes of poetry and prose, including The Practice of the Wild and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Turtle Island. Reading tour.
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This book will change your view of the planet you live on and the life you live on it. Pulitzer prize winner Gary Snyder is a voice that needs to be heard (along with others, such as Wendell Berry)to balance the noise we are inundated with via tv, newspapers, etc. These poems take us beyond issues such as "patriotism" and "nationalism" or even "environmentalism" -- and on to more global and universal citizenship issues of which we all need significantly greater awareness.
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I first heard of Gary Snyder when I stumbled across his answer to the question as to whether he would rather hear a poem by a raccoon or a possum. Snyder's answer was: "A raccoon's poem is alert and inquisitive, and amazes you by what a mess it makes. A possum's poem seems sort of slow and dumb at first, but then it rolls over. When you get close to it, it spits in your eye." I am not sure there is a clear cut answer there, but then Snyder, who received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1975 for ... Read More
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Gary Snyder is a master of condensation. Somehow, using an economy of words, he conveys a clear sense of "the moment" -- sitting on a mountain top; snuggling by the fire; walking on a crowded street. It's a new kind of minimalist poetry that, once read, makes some of the older stuff seem, well, old. Snyder's forte is poems about nature. One of my favorites, called "Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout" consists of just 10 lines. But I've read it a hundred times, and the words still ring true in ... Read More
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John Berryman said that the art of poetry was that of developing a personality in words. Gary Snyder is one of the most recognizable and fascinating poetic personalities of our time. Even when he is absent, he is present -- the details he chooses to focus on, the way of perceiving embodied by the poems, tell us as much about his mind ("a mind like compost," as he writes) as any work by the so-called "confessional" poets; but rather than concentrate on tawdry details and domestic crises, Snyder ... Read More
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Nowhere in modern poetry is there a poet who sells himself as much as Snyder. His poetry is rarely original and largely, embarassingly pillaged from various other systems and styles, both past and present. He is a preacher first, poet last. He is hell bent on advising the proper ways to live on the earth. Yet every path the man has taken has been to glean from others, to co-opt. We are still waiting for the real Gary Snyder to please stand up. He salutes the cultures of indigenous peoples - but ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780679742524
ISBN: 0679742522
Label: Pantheon
Manufacturer: Pantheon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: September 07, 1993
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date: September 07, 1993
Studio: Pantheon