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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780811201940
ISBN: 0811201945
Label: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 150
Publication Date: 1971-06
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Studio: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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The Back Country is one of Gary Snyder's most serious engagements with Eastern culture and thought. Much of the book works to achieve a perspective by means of contrast, as in "Hitch Haiku," a series of haiku (a Japanese form of imagistic, syllabic verse) mostly set in the American West. Perhaps the strongest poem is "Oil," in which Snyder envisions a tanker as a needle bringing our addicted nation "long injections of pure oil."
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I had to read many of the poems in this volume while taking a college course in Beat Literature, but in this reviewer's opinion the careful, Eastern-oriented poetry by Snyder has a mystical quality sorely lacking in poetry by writers like Kerouac, Corso, Ferlinghetti and even Ginsberg. Snyder captures the mountains of the pacific northwest, human relationships, campfires, and the mysteries of the far east in a careful and understated style. He sometimes makes use of the ancient Japanese style ... Read More
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This collection of poetry changed my life, I was deeply engaged with each installment!
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780811201940
ISBN: 0811201945
Label: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 150
Publication Date: 1971-06
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Studio: New Directions Publishing Corporation