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1.The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991 by: Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg November 25, 2008
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2.Turtle Island (A New Directions Book) by: Gary Snyder 1974-12
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Even three decades after its publication which won for Gary Snyder the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, this text of poems and essays remains a classic of 20th-century American poetry and environmental literature. I look forward to teaching it again in a college classroom later this winter and introducing a new generation of students to the power of Snyder's poetry and ideas.

3.Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems by: Gary Snyder December 01, 2003
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Each man sweeps the things he hates Into the neighboring room; The coward does it with a sword, The brave man with a broom.

4.The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations by: Gary Snyder April 04, 2000
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This is a great & comprehensive look at wilderness philospher, beat poet, zen Buddhist Gary Snyder. With poems from Riprap and Turtle Island as well as plenty of essays, this reader is great for anyone interested in beat poetry, wilderness or zen. I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in those aforementioned categories or would like a kind of oeuvre of his work. A must have!

5.Mountains and Rivers Without End: Poem by: Gary Snyder March 03, 2008
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Written over forty years, MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS WITHOUT END is poet Gary Snyder's highest achievment. Here he has presented a perception of the world that has taken four decades of experience to put into words. The collection moves chronologically from Snyder's glimpse in the 50's of a Japanese scroll that gave the book its name, though his wanderings in the American West, and into senescene. Decades of travel have exposure Snyder to so much of our planet, and this experience forms a major part of MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS WITHOUT END. Mixing ecological perspective with Buddhist metaphysics, these poems are a powerful description of Man's relationship with the planet. Snyder is supremely aware of how attached mankind is to the Earth, and how its ever-surrounding landscape influences peoples. Read More

6.A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds by: Gary Snyder June 28, 2008
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I bought this book, along with the poetry collection, No Nature, to gain an insight into the work of Gary Snyder, someone I had often seen quoted, but had never read at first hand. Snyder is perhaps best known as a west coast 'nature' poet, a fellow traveller of the 'beat generation', but he is also a prominent Buddhist, bioregional visionary and literary scholar. To judge from this book he is, moreover, an accomplished and eloquent essayist. The essays presented here, articles, reviews, talks and what might loosely be called manifestos, come mainly from the 70s to the 90s and span the breadth of Snyder's interests. Arranged in three sections, Ethics, Aesthetics and Watersheds, Snyder's writing manages to be poetic, religious, political and compelling at all times. Having read this book I feel ... Read More

7.The Practice of the Wild: Essays by: Gary Snyder November 24, 2003
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In spite of my passion for this conserving wild places I couldn't finish this book. I didn't feel like I learned much or was exposed to new perspectives. The strident style of the author's prose made it feel like I was being machine gunned by his opinions. Further, I look for writing on this subject to have some sense of poetry and to be less self absorbed. I was disappointed.

8.Back on the Fire: Essays by: Gary Snyder January 28, 2008
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These essays, including those written as talks or prefaces to other people's books, are in no sense minor. They are often distillations--not so much argument as succinct statements of profound if still largely unacknowledged truths, simply and generously interwoven with history, anecdote, example, biography and autobiography. Though there may appear to be no unifying theme, and though the specific subject of the role of fire in healthy forests recurs, this volume is a whole defined by itself, and by the quality of Snyder's observation, thought and expression. For me, the connection between his immersion in East Asian writing, in Buddhism, in the realities of living and working in the natural world, in American literature (Native and non-Native), and his own writing and approach to the world, has never ... Read More

9.Earth House Hold: Technical Notes and Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries by: Gary Snyder 1969-06
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This is my favorite book in the world. Period. Why? I suppose the attraction is Snyder's diamond cutter clarity and surface simplicity, coupled with his rhythmic West Coast venacular - this work woke me from my own "dogmatic slumber" and set me on a lifetime of travel. Snyder may have been a Beat, but I would argue, only vicariously - that is, while some of the other "Beats" became verbose and morbidly self-absorbed, Snyder on the other hand conitnued to live according to his own quirky, West Coast intuitive understanding of the universe (learned from mountain peaks and bear droppings) beyond the modern materialistic social matrix that many of us find ourselves being gobbled up by. Here, Snyder offers us an alternative, or a reminder, that there are other ways to live, not just according to rigid social ... Read More

10.High Sierra of California by: Gary Snyder August 01, 2005
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I have been savoring this book since I got it. Some years ago I saw Tom Killion's prints at a small gallery in Carson City, NV and they are well reproduced here. The text is quite interesting too and the prints and stories work together beautifully to capture the spirit of this most magnificent place.

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