Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: poetry, translations, prose, reader, snyder, gary
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1582430799
ISBN-13: 9781582430799

This monumental collection gathers essays, travel journals, letters, poems, and translations from one of the most influential literary voices of the twentieth century Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades-prize-winning poet, environmental activist, Zen Buddhist, and reluctant counterculture guru. Having expanded far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into the public eye, Snyder has produced a wide-ranging body of work that encompasses his fluency in Eastern literature and culture, his commitment to the environment, and his concepts of humanity&#

Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: New Directio
Keywords: texts, myths
Number of Pages: 54
Published: 1978-04-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0811206866
ISBN-13: 9780811206860

Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: essays, fire
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-01-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1593761635
ISBN-13: 9781593761639

This collection of essays by Gary Snyder, now in paperback, blazes with insight. In his most autobiographical writing to date, Snyder employs fire as a metaphor for the crucial moment when deeply held viewpoints yield to new experiences, and our spirits and minds broaden and mature. Snyder here writes and riffs on a wide range of topics, from our sense of place and a need to review forestry practices, to the writing life and Eastern thought. Surveying the current wisdom that fires are in some cases necessary for ecosystems of the wild, he contemplates the evolution of his view on the practice,

Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: wave, regarding
Number of Pages: 98
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0811201961
ISBN-13: 9780811201964

A collection of poems that marks Gary Snyder’s golden years which would culminate with the Pulitzer Prize winning Turtle Island.

Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: book, directions, new, island, turtle
Number of Pages: 114
Published: 1974-12
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0811205460
ISBN-13: 9780811205467

These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time.

Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: poems, handles, axe
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-01-28
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1593760574
ISBN-13: 9781593760571

This is a collection of discovery, of insight, and of vision. These poems see the roots of community in the family, and the roots of culture and government in the community. "In making the handle of an axe by cutting wood with an axe the model is indeed near at hand." In exploring this axiom of Lu Ji’s, Gary Snyder continues: I am an axe And my son a handle, soon To be shaping again, model And tool, craft of culture, How we go on. Formally, the 71 poems in Axe Handles range from lyrics to riddles to narratives. The collection is divided into three parts, called "Loops," "Little Songs f

Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: poems, mountain, cold, riprap
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1593760159
ISBN-13: 9781593760151

Forty-five years ago, Gary Snyder’s first book of poems, Riprap, was published by Origin Press in a beautiful paperbound edition stitched Japanese-style. Around that time Snyder published his translations of Chinese poet Han-Shan’s Cold Mountain Poems in the sixth issue of the "Evergreen Review." Thus was launched one of the most remarkable literary careers of the last century. It is a great gift for all readers to now have this seminal collection back in print.