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Book

Gary Snyder : essential prose

Call Number

  • 818 S6753 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, NY : The Library of America, [2025]

Physical Description

xviii, 679 pages : 21 cm.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Summary

Library of America completes its collection of the writings of our "poet laureate of Deep Ecology" with this career-spanning volume of Gary Snyder's essential prose, prepared by his longtime editor in consultation with the author. Including interviews, previously uncollected essays, and selections from works including "Earth house hold," "The practice of the wild," and "A place in space," here are writings on his solitary life as a fire lookout in the mountains of Washington State and his years as a Buddhist initiate; on East Asian literatures and cultures over millenia; on Native American mythology; on wildness and wilderness, seeking wisdom, and living in community; on the ongoing global environmental crisis; and more.

Contents

  • Introduction / from Earth house hold: Lookout's journal ; Japan first time around ; Spring sesshin at Shokoku-ji ; Buddhism and the coming revolution ; Passage to more than India ; Poetry and the primitive ; Suwa-no-se Island and the Banyan ashram
  • from He who hunted birds in his father's village: The myth ; Function of the myth
  • from The real work: The real work ; The east west interview ; Poetry, community & climax
  • from Passage through India: The Cambodge ; Pondicherry ; Khajuraho ; Dharamshala ; Dalai Lama
  • from The practice of the wild: The etiquette of freedom ; The place, the region, and the commons ; Tawny grammar ; Good, wild, sacred ; Blue mountains and constantly walking ; Ancient forests of the Far West ; On the path, off the trail ; Grace
  • from A place in space: Smokey the Bear sutra ; Four changes, with a postscript ; "Energy is eternal delight" ; Unnatural writing ; The porous world ; Coming into the watershed ; Kitkitdizze : a node in the net
  • The Paris Review interview : the art of poetry LXXIV
  • from Back on the fire: The ark of the Sierra ; Ecology, literature and the new world disorder ; Writers and the war against nature ; Entering the fifth millennium ; Lifetimes with fire ; Regarding "Smokey the Bear sutra"
  • from Tamalpais walking: Underfoot earth turns
  • The great clod: Summer in Hokkaido ; All he sees is blue : basic Far East ; The great clod : China and nature ; "Wild" in China ; Ink and charcoal ; Walls within walls ; Beyond Cathay : the hill tribes of China ; Wolf-hair brush
  • Uncollected essays: Walking the great ridge Omine on the Womb-Diamond Trail
  • Turn off the calculating mind!

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Genres

Essays.