The Practice of the Wild

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582439354
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Book Synopsis The Practice of the Wild by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book The Practice of the Wild written by Gary Snyder and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of captivatingly meditative essays that display a deep understanding of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world from an American cultural force. With thoughts ranging from political and spiritual matters to those regarding the environment and the art of becoming native to this continent, the nine essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder. 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.

No Nature

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Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis No Nature by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book No Nature written by Gary Snyder and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1992 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Danger on Peaks

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619024055
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Danger on Peaks by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book Danger on Peaks written by Gary Snyder and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published in 2004, Danger on Peaks was the poet's first new collection of poems in twenty years. Perhaps his most personal, autobiographical collection, it begins with the young poet ascending Mt. St. Helens in 1945, a climb accidentally timed with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was 15 years old. Almost sixty years later, after the great Buddhas at Bamiyan Valley were bombed and with the victims of the World Trade Center also "turned to dust," the poet composed a prayer while at Short Grass Temple in Senso–ji, a pilgrim on the path of Kannon, Goddess of Mercy. This remarkable collection was greeted with broad praise, and as Julia Martin proclaimed, "Moving between relative and absolute ways of seeing, [Snyder] responds to the experience of global conflict and personal pain by reminding readers of the continuity of wildness, affirming the value of art, and invoking an ancient practice of wisdom and compassion."

Axe Handles

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Publisher : Counterpoint
ISBN 13 : 9781593760571
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Axe Handles by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book Axe Handles written by Gary Snyder and published by Counterpoint. This book was released on 2005 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finely tuned compilation of poetry presents seventy-one diverse poems--ranging from lyrics to narratives to riddles--that deal with the themes of language, culture, tradition, nature, aging, family life, and the role of the artist. Reprint.

Cold Mountain Poems

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619022133
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Cold Mountain Poems by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book Cold Mountain Poems written by Gary Snyder and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, Gary Snyder returned to the Bay Area and, at age 23, enrolled in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, to study Asian languages and culture. He intensified his study of Chinese and Japanese, and taking up the challenge of one of his professors, Chen Shih–hsiang, he began to work on translating a largely unknown poet by the name of Han Shan, a writer with whom the professor thought Snyder might feel a special affinity. The results were magical. As Patrick Murphy noted, "These poems are something more than translations precisely because Snyder renders them as a melding of Han Shan's Chinese Ch'an Buddhist mountain spirit trickster mentality and Snyder's own mountain wilderness meditation and labor activities." The suite of 24 poems was published in the 1958 issue of The Evergreen Review, and the career of one of America's greatest poets was launched. In 1972, Press–22 issued a beautiful edition of these poems written out by hand in italic by Michael McPherson. We are doing a new augments edition based on the old, with a new design, a preface by Lu Ch'iu–yin, and an afterword by Mr. Snyder where he discusses how he came to this work and what it meant to his development as a writer and Buddhist. On May 11, 2012, for the Stronach Memorial Lecture at The University of California, more than fifty years after his days there as a student, Snyder offered a public lecture reflecting on Chinese poetry, Han Shan, and his continuing work as a poet and Translated by. This remarkable occasion was recorded and we are including a CD of it in our edition, making this the most definitive edition of Cold Mountain Poems ever published.

A Sense of the Whole

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619025027
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis A Sense of the Whole by : Mark Gonnerman

Download or read book A Sense of the Whole written by Mark Gonnerman and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, Mark Gonnerman organized a yearlong research workshop on Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End at the Stanford Humanities Center. Members of what came to be known among faculty, students, and diverse community members as the Mountains & Rivers Workshop met regularly to read and discuss Snyder's epic poem. Here the poem served as a commons that turned the multiversity into a university once again, if only for a moment. The Workshop invited writers, teachers and scholars from Northern California and Japan to speak on various aspects of Snyder's great accomplishment. This book captures the excitement of these gatherings and invites readers to enter the poem through essays and talks by David Abram, Wendell Berry, Carl Bielefeldt, Tim Dean, Jim Dodge, Robert Hass, Stephanie Kaza, Julia Martin, Michael McClure, Nanao Sakaki, and Katsunori Yamazato. It includes an interview with Gary Snyder, appendices, and other resources for further study. Snyder once introduced a reading of this work with reference to whitewater rapids, saying most of his writing is like a Class III run where you will do just fine on your own, but that Mountains and Rivers is more like Class V: if you're going to make it to take–out, you need a guide. As a collection of commentaries and background readings, this companion volume enhances each reader's ability to find their way into and through an adventurous and engaging work of art.

The High Sierra of California

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Publisher : Heyday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The High Sierra of California by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book The High Sierra of California written by Gary Snyder and published by Heyday. This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The High Sierra of California is a brilliant tribute to the bold, jagged peaks that have inspired generations of naturalists, artists, and writers. Using traditional Japanese and European woodcut techniques, Killion has created stunning visual images of the Sierra that focus on the backcountry above nine thousand feet, accessible only on foot. Accompanying these riveting images are the journals of Gary Snyder, chronicling more than forty years of travels through the High Sierra backcountry.

Stag's Leap

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307959902
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Book Synopsis Stag's Leap by : Sharon Olds

Download or read book Stag's Leap written by Sharon Olds and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant sequence of poems traces the evolution of a divorce while exploring themes of love, sex, sorrow, memory and freedom as reflected by everyday familiarities and the poignancy of former lovers parting, in a collection by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Dead and the Living.

This Present Moment

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619026333
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis This Present Moment by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book This Present Moment written by Gary Snyder and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This present moment That lives on To become Long ago." For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, from Paris and Tuscany to the shrine at Delphi, from Santa Fe to Sella Pass, Snyder lays out these poems as a map of the last decade. Placed side–by–side, they become a path and a trail of complexity and lyrical regard, a sort of riprap of the poet's eighth decade. And in the mix are some of the most beautiful domestic poems of his great career, poems about his work as a homesteader and householder, as a father and husband, as a friend and neighbor. A centerpiece in this collection is a long poem about the death of his beloved, Carole Koda, a rich poem of grief and sorrow, rare in its steady resolved focus on a dying wife, of a power unequaled in American poetry. As a friend is quoted in one of these new poems: "I met the other lately in the far back of a bar, musicians playing near the window and he sweetly told me "listen to that music. The self we hold so dear will soon be gone."" Gary Snyder is one of the greatest American poets of the last century, and This Present Moment shows his command, his broad range, and his remarkable courage.

Turtle Island

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811205467
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Turtle Island by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book Turtle Island written by Gary Snyder and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1974 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems.

Myths & Texts

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811206860
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Book Synopsis Myths & Texts by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book Myths & Texts written by Gary Snyder and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1978 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Snyder's second collection, Myths & Texts, was originally published in 1960 by Totem Press. It is now reissued by New Directions in this completely revised format, with an introduction by the author.

The Man of Genius

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Book Synopsis The Man of Genius by : Cesare Lombroso

Download or read book The Man of Genius written by Cesare Lombroso and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nobody Home

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Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595342524
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Nobody Home by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book Nobody Home written by Gary Snyder and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 distinguished writer, and becomes a long-distance friendship and an exploration of spiritual practice. At the project’s heart is Snyder’s understanding of Buddhism. Again and again, the conversations return to an explication of the teachings. Snyder’s characteristic approach is to articulate a direct experience of Buddhist practice rather than any kind of abstract philosophy. In the version he describes here, this practice finds expression not primarily as an Asian import or a monastic ideal, but in the specificities of a householder’s life as lived creatively in a particular location at a particular moment in history. This means that whatever “topic” a dialogue explores, there is a sense that all of it is about practice—the spiritual-social practice of a contemporary poet.

Fast Food Nation

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547750331
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 download)

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Book Synopsis Fast Food Nation by : Eric Schlosser

Download or read book Fast Food Nation written by Eric Schlosser and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.

Cold Mountain

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis Cold Mountain by : Han-shan

Download or read book Cold Mountain written by Han-shan and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ghost Fishing

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820353159
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Ghost Fishing by : Melissa Tuckey

Download or read book Ghost Fishing written by Melissa Tuckey and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Fishing is the first anthology to focus solely on poetry with an eco-justice bent. A culturally diverse collection entering a field where nature poetry anthologies have historically lacked diversity, this book presents a rich terrain of contemporary environmental poetry with roots in many cultural traditions. Eco-justice poetry is poetry born of deep cultural attachment to the land and poetry born of crisis. Aligned with environmental justice activism and thought, eco-justice poetry defines environment as “the place we work, live, play, and worship.” This is a shift from romantic notions of nature as a pristine wilderness outside ourselves toward recognition of the environment as home: a source of life, health, and livelihood. Ghost Fishing is arranged by topic at key intersections between social justice and the environment such as exile, migration, and dispossession; war; food production; human relations to the animal world; natural resources and extraction; environmental disaster; and cultural resilience and resistance. This anthology seeks to expand our consciousness about the interrelated nature of our experiences and act as a starting point for conversation about the current state of our environment. Contributors include Homero Aridjis, Brenda Cárdenas, Natalie Diaz, Camille T. Dungy, Martín Espada, Ross Gay, Joy Harjo, Brenda Hillman, Linda Hogan, Philip Metres, Naomi Shihab Nye, Tolu Ogunlesi, Wang Ping, Patrick Rosal, Tim Seibles, Danez Smith, Arthur Sze, Eleanor Wilner, and Javier Zamora.

Earth House Hold

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222683
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis Earth House Hold by : Gary Snyder

Download or read book Earth House Hold written by Gary Snyder and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1969-06-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Pound and Williams have shown a good poet can revitalize prose style. Earth House Hold (a play on the root meaning of "ecology"), drawn from Gary Snyder's essays and journals, may prove a landmark for the new generation. "As a poet," Snyder tells us, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe." He develops, as replacement for shattered social structures. a concept of tribal tradition which could lead to "growth and enlightenment in self-disciplined freedom. Whatever it is or ever was in any other culture can be reconstructed from the unconscious through meditation...the coming revolution will close the circle and link us in many ways with the most creative aspects of our archaic past."