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In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period many things changed decisively-globally, locally, and in their personal lives-and these changing conditions provide the back story for a long conversation. It begins in the early 1980s as an intellectual exchange between an earnest graduate student and a generous...
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The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder?s work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture.
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Inspired by the ancient Chinese proverb, "There's nothing you can own that can't be left out in the rain," this collection charts the journeys of the poet from 1947 to 1985. This book is unique among Gary Snyder's numerable works, and the poems contained here are as broad in style as the compilation is in timeframe. With a new introduction by the author, "Left Out in the Rain captures the evolution of the poet and the man. Readers will travel with...
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In 1969 Gary Snyder returned from a long residence in Japan to a homestead in the Northern Sierra foothills, where he intended to build a house and settle with his wife and young sons. He had just published his first book of essays, Earth House Hold. A few years before, Wendell Berry left New York City to return to homestead near his grandfather's farm in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he built a small studio and lived with his wife. Berry had just published...
11) Poetry in motion
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Called the "Woodstock of Poetry" by American Film, and "Dazzling" by the Los Angeles Times, Poetry in Motion is an unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry's ancient oral tradition. And an energetic demonstration that verse is alive and thriving in the media-blitzed age.
