Gary Snyder: Collected Poems (LOA #357) by Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder: Collected Poems (LOA #357) by Gary Snyder

The first collected edition of an essential, Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet, the indispensable voice whose deep ecological vision and Buddhist spirituality grows more relevant with each passing decade>

Gary Snyder is one of America's indispensable poets, the Thoreau of the Beat Generation and our laureate of Deep Ecology. Now, for the first time, all of Snyder's poetry is gathered in a single, authoritative Library of America volume.

Here are all of Snyder's published books of poetry spanning a career of almost seventy years. Early collections such as>Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, Myths & Texts, and>The Back Country reflect his hardscrabble rural upbringing in the Pacific Northwest; his life as a logger, fire-lookout, freighter crewman, carpenter, and trail-blazer; his lifelong interest in Native American oral literatures; and his pioneering studies of Zen Buddhism.

In>Turtle Island>and>Axe Handles--the former a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and the latter the American Book Award in 1984--he explores countercultural alternatives to environmental and spiritual decline and envisioning new forms of harmony with nature.

His epic>Mountains and Rivers Without End, a poem four decades in the making and regarded by many as his masterwork, is followed by>Danger on Peaks, and the intimate, preternaturally candid late lyrics of>This Present Moment, which meditate on his life as a father, husband, friend, neighbor, and homesteader in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada, where he has lived since 1971.

The volume concludes with a generous selection, made by Snyder himself, of previously uncollected poems from little magazines and broadsides; translations from East Asian literatures; and drafts and fragments never before published. Also included are explanatory notes, a detailed chronology of Snyder's life, and an essay on textual selection.

The first collected edition of an essential, Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet, the indispensable voice whose deep ecological vision and Buddhist spirituality grows more relevant with each passing decade>

Gary Snyder is one of America's indispensable poets, the Thoreau of the Beat Generation and our laureate of Deep Ecology. Now, for the first time, all of Snyder's poetry is gathered in a single, authoritative Library of America volume.

Here are all of Snyder's published books of poetry spanning a career of almost seventy years. Early collections such as>Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, Myths & Texts, and>The Back Country reflect his hardscrabble rural upbringing in the Pacific Northwest; his life as a logger, fire-lookout, freighter crewman, carpenter, and trail-blazer; his lifelong interest in Native American oral literatures; and his pioneering studies of Zen Buddhism.

In>Turtle Island>and>Axe Handles--the former a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and the latter the American Book Award in 1984--he explores countercultural alternatives to environmental and spiritual decline and envisioning new forms of harmony with nature.

His epic>Mountains and Rivers Without End, a poem four decades in the making and regarded by many as his masterwork, is followed by>Danger on Peaks, and the intimate, preternaturally candid late lyrics of>This Present Moment, which meditate on his life as a father, husband, friend, neighbor, and homesteader in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada, where he has lived since 1971.

The volume concludes with a generous selection, made by Snyder himself, of previously uncollected poems from little magazines and broadsides; translations from East Asian literatures; and drafts and fragments never before published. Also included are explanatory notes, a detailed chronology of Snyder's life, and an essay on textual selection.

Snyder, Gary: - Born in 1930 in San Francisco, Gary Snyder grew up in the rural Pacific Northwest. He graduated from Reed College in 1951 with degrees in anthropology and literature, and later, 1953-56, studied Japanese and Chinese civilization at Berkeley, returning there to teach in the English Department. After participating in the San Francisco revival, the beginning of the beat poetry movement, with Ginsberg, Whalen, Rexroth and McClure, Snyder quietly went off to Japan in 1955 where he stayed for eighteen months, living in a Zen monastery. In 1958, he joined the tanker Sappa Creek and traveled around the world. In early 1959 he again returned to Japan where, apart from six months in India, he studied Kyoto under Oda Sesso Roshi, the Zen master and Head Abbot of Daitoku-Ji. He has spent further time (1966-67) in Japan on a Bollingen research grant. In 1969 he received a Guggenheim grant and toured the Southwestern United States visiting various Indian tribes.

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ISBN 13	9781598537215
ISBN 10	1598537210
Title	Gary Snyder: Collected Poems (LOA #357)
Author	Gary Snyder
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Binding type	Hardback
Publisher	The Library of America
Year published	2022-06-21
Number of pages	1000
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