All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors, and is provided at no charge...Can you believe it? And he has sought something akin to this through Buddhist practices, Yamabushi initiation, and other experiences and involvements. "absolutely my all-time favorite book.
The rising hills, the slopes, of statistics lie before us, the steep climb of everything, going up, up, as we all go down. Beautiful, sometimes rough, but never harsh or mean.A treasure of 20th century American poetry.
Streams and mountains never stay the same.Beautiful. Like Liked by 1 person.
As a social critic, Snyder has much in common with Lewis Mumford, Aldous Huxley, Karl Hess, Aldo Leopold, and Karl Polanyi. But as I read, I felt at times like each word should be rolled over on the tongue, handled, examined, considered, before moving to the next, it was that rich. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1975 for his book of poems Turtle Island.He has published numerous volumes of poems and essays, and is the prototype for one of the main characters in a classic Beat Generation novel by Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums. The following year, Snyder came in.
From a first person point of view, the narrator describes his friends leaving. my all-time favorite poem, "the blue sky", which kevin read to me at our wedding, is in this collection. The "making of" at the back of the book was really interesting and shed some light on things to explore more fully. Gary Snyder began his career in the 1950s as a noted member of the “Beat Generation,” though he has since explored a wide range of social and spiritual matters in both poetry and prose.
Throughout the book many sweeping themes and references to many universal or deep concepts arise, intermingle, and blur. 1582434077 Gary Snyder Poems December At Yase.
Here is Zen, American Indian folklore, Wob-style Western Americana, ecology, and landscape, all woven together in Snyder's distinctive diamond-sharp style.
However, since his youth he has been quite literate, and he has written about his appreciation of writers of similar sensibilities, like Snyder is among those writers who have sought to dis-entrench conventional thinking about primitive peoples that has viewed them as simple-minded, ignorantly superstitious, brutish, and prone to violent emotionalism. M&R brings together all of Snyder's major concerns and reflects the stages of his complicated ongoing journey: his youth in the Pacific Northwest, immersion in the forests and mountains, apprenticeship to a Zen monastery in Japan, decision to homestead a place in northern California and raise his family, environmental activism as part of an encompassing eco-political vision.
Let Snyder’s tiny prayer of blessing mend your aching soul, and feel a little more enlightened afterward.The title of this poem is a little misleading, which seems to be a trend with Gary Snyder. Mountains are mountains are not mountains are mountains are rivers are rivers are not rivers are rivers. Throughout the book many sweeping themes and references to many universal or deep concepts arise, intermingle, and blur. It's been forty years in the writing, and though it may no longer be subject to revision, it seems like the summation of a lifetime of study, and writing. And The Los Angeles River Basin at Night, which treats the city as a natural phenomenon, an ecosystem, with its freeways--rivers of people; the LA river; the animals and the birds and the people. The individual poems that comprise this epic didn't hold my interest or stick with me in the same way as the poems in The individual poems that comprise this epic didn't hold my interest or stick with me in the same way as the poems in As has already been stated in many of the the prior reviews for this work, it is quite apparent that this is the likeliness candidate to be considered Mr. Snyder's magnum opus, his master work.