The Gary Snyder Reader Prose, Poetry, and Translations,9781582430799

The Gary Snyder Reader Prose, Poetry, and Translations

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Pub. Date: 2000-03-16
Publisher(s): Counterpoint
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Summary

Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades-prize-winning poet, environmental activist, Zen Buddhist, and reluctant counterculture guru. Having expanded far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into the public eye, Snyder has produced a wide-ranging body of work that encompasses his fluency in Eastern literature and culture, his commitment to the environment, and his concepts of humanity's place in the cosmos. The Gary Snyder Reader showcases the panoramic range of his literary vision in a single-volume survey that will appeal to students and general readers alike.

Author Biography

Gary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award. His 1992 collection, No Nature, was a National Book Award finalist, and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, educator and Zen Buddhist.

Table of Contents

Foreword xv
Jim Dodge
Author's Note xxi
Prose
Earth house Hold
Lookout's Journal
5(19)
Japan First Time Around
24(10)
Spring Sesshin at Shokoku-ji
34(7)
Buddhism and the Possibilities of a Planetary Culture
41(3)
Passage to More Than India
44(8)
Poettry and the Primitive
52(10)
Suwa-no-se Island and the Banyan Ashram
62(9)
He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village
The Myth
71(4)
Function of the Myth
75(16)
The Real Work
The East West Interview
91(38)
Passage Through India
The Cambodge
129(6)
Pondicherry
135(4)
Khajuraho
139(2)
Dharamshala
141(3)
Dalai Lama
144(5)
Letters
to Philip Whalen (1954--1961)
149(11)
to Will Petersen (1957--1958)
160(7)
The Practice of the Wild
The Etiquette of Freedom
167(16)
The Place, the Region, and the Commons
183(17)
Blue Mountains Constantly Walking
200(14)
Ancient Forests of the Far West
214(21)
Grace
235(6)
A Place in Space
Smokey the Bear Sutra
241(4)
Four Changes, with a Postscript
245(9)
``Energy Is Eternal Delight''
254(3)
Unnatural Writing
257(6)
The Porous World
263(4)
Coming into the Watershed
267(10)
Kitkitdizze: A Node in the Net
277(10)
The Great Clod Project
``Wild'' in China
287(9)
Walls Within Walls
296(17)
The Brush
313(6)
The Paris Review Interview
319(216)
Selections from Journals
Japan, ``Of All the Wild Sakura''
341(8)
Australia
349(4)
Ladakh
353(7)
Botswana and Zimbabwe
360(11)
Uncollected Essays
Walking the Great Ridge Omine on the Womb-Diamond Trail
371(12)
Walking Downtown Naha
383(4)
Is Nature Real?
387(3)
Entering the Fiftieth Millennium
390(9)
Riprap
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
399(1)
Piute Creek
400(1)
Milton by Firelight
401(1)
Above Pate Valley
402(1)
Hay for the Horses
403(1)
Riprap
404(3)
Myths and Texts
[from ``Logging'']
``The Morning Star Is Not a Star''
407(1)
``But Ye Shall Destroy Their Altars''
407(1)
``Lodgepole Pine: The Wonderful Reproductive''
408(1)
``Each Dawn Is Clear''
409(1)
``The Groves Are Down''
410(1)
``Lodgepole''
410(1)
[from ``Hunting'']
First Shaman Song
411(1)
This Poem Is for bear
412(1)
This Poem Is for Deer
413(2)
``Sealion, Salmon, Offshore---''
415(1)
``Flung from Demonic Wombs''
416(1)
``How Rare to be Born a Human Being!''
416(1)
[from ``Burning'']
Maudgalyayana Saw Hell
417(1)
John Muir on Mt. Ritter
418(1)
Amitabha's Vow
419(1)
``Spikes of New Smell Driven up Nostrils''
419(2)
``Stone-flake and Salmon''
421(1)
``Wash Me on Home, Mama''
422(3)
The Back Country
A Berry Feast
425(4)
The Spring
429(1)
A Walk
430(1)
Burning the Small Dead
431(1)
Foxtal Pine
432(1)
Oil
433(1)
After Work
434(1)
Four Poems for Robin
435(2)
Work to Do Toward Town
437(1)
The Manichaeans
438(1)
Artemis
439(1)
Mother of the Buddhas
440(1)
Nature Green Shit
441(1)
Twelve Hours Out of New York
442(1)
Hop, Skip, and Jump
443(1)
Through the Smoke Hole
444(2)
Nanao Knows
446(3)
Regarding Wave
Wave
449(1)
In the House of the Rising Sun
450(1)
Song of the Taste
451(1)
Kyoto Born in Spring Song
452(1)
Everybody Lying on Their Stomachs, Head Toward the Candle, Reading, Sleeping, Drawing
453(1)
Shark Meat
454(1)
The Bed in the Sky
455(1)
Regarding Wave
456(1)
Revolution in the Revolution in the Revolution
457(1)
Sours of the Hills
458(1)
To Fire
459(1)
Love
460(1)
Meeting the Mountains
461(1)
Long Hair
462(3)
Turtle Island
Without
465(1)
I Went Into the Maverick Bar
466(1)
No Matter, Never Mind
467(1)
The Bath
468(3)
Control Burn
471(1)
Prayer for the Great Family
472(1)
Source
473(1)
For Nothing
474(1)
The Egg
475(1)
Pine Tree Tops
476(1)
By Frazier Creek Falls
477(1)
Mother Earth: Her Whales
478(2)
Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen
480(1)
``One Should Not Talk to a Skilled Hunter About What Is Forbidden by the Buddha''
481(1)
Magpie's Song
482(1)
O Waters
483(1)
For the Children
484(1)
As for Poets
485(4)
Axe Handles
Axe Handles
489(1)
River in the Valley
490(1)
Changing Diapers
491(1)
Walking Through Myoshin-ji
492(1)
Working on the '58 Willys Pickup
493(1)
For/From Lew
494(1)
Getting in the Wood
495(1)
True Night
496(2)
24:IV:40075, 3:30 PM
498(1)
Dillingham, Alaska, the Willow Tree Bar
499(1)
Breasts
500(1)
Old Woman Nature
501(1)
The Canyon Wren
502(2)
For All
504(3)
Left Out in the Rain
Poem Left in Sourdough Mountain Lookout
507(1)
Seeing the Ox
507(1)
Longitude 170° West, Latitude 35° North
508(1)
For Example
509(1)
English Lessons at the Boiler Company
510(1)
Farewell to Burning Island
510(1)
No Shoes No Shirt No Service
511(1)
Poetry Is the Eagle of Experience
512(1)
Calcium
512(1)
At White River Roadhouse
513(1)
The Persimmons
514(2)
For Berkeley
516(1)
``There are those who love to get dirty''
516(1)
Sestina of the End of the Kalpa
517(1)
How Zen Masters Are Like Mature Herring
518(6)
Cold Mountain Poems [Translations]
``The Path to Han-shan's Place Is Laughable''
524(1)
``In a Tangle of Cliffs I Chose a Place---''
524(1)
``Men Ask the Way to Cold Mountain''
524(1)
``I Settled at Cold Mountain Long Ago''
524(1)
``I Have Lived at Cold Mountain''
525(1)
``In My First Thirty Years of Life''
525(1)
``There's a Naked Bug at Cold Mountain''
525(1)
``Cold Mountain Is a House''
525(1)
``Some Critic Tried to Put Me Down---''
526(1)
``When Men See Han-shan''
526(4)
Miyazawa Kenji [Translations]
Spring and the Ashura
530(2)
Floating World Picture: Spring in the Kitagami Mountains
532(1)
Cloud Semaphore
533(1)
The Politicians
534(1)
Thief
534(1)
Sixteen T'ang Poems [Translations]
535(10)
Long Bitter Song [Translations]
545(66)
No Nature
How Poetry Comes to Me
557(1)
On Climbing the Sierra Matterhorn Again After Thirty-one years
557(1)
The Sweat
558(2)
Building
560(2)
Off the Trail
562(1)
Word Basket Woman
563(2)
Right in the Trail
565(2)
For Lew Welch in a Snowfall
567(1)
Ripples on the Surface
568(3)
Mountains and Rivers Without End
Bubbs Creek Haircut
571(5)
The Blue Sky
576(4)
The Flowing
580(4)
Arctic Midnight Twilight
584(3)
Walking the New York Bedrock
587(4)
New Moon Tongue
591(1)
Macaques in the Sky
592(1)
Raven's Beak River at the End
593(2)
Cross Legg'd
595(1)
We Wash Our Bowls in This Water
596(2)
Earth Verse
598(1)
Finding the Space in the Heart
599(6)
New Poems
Icy Mountains Constantly Walking
605(1)
Summer of Ninety-Seven
606(2)
``This present moment''
608(3)
Chronology 611(4)
Index 615

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