No Nature: New and Selected Poems
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"The greatest of living nature poets. . . . It helps us to go on, having Gary Snyder in our midst."--Los Angeles Times. Snyder is the author of many volumes of poetry and prose, including The Practice... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0679742522
ISBN13:9780679742524
Release Date:September 1993
Publisher:Pantheon
Length:416 Pages
Weight:0.87 lbs.
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Customer Reviews
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A great intro. to Snyder!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
A wonderful and varied collection. Poems that range in subject from environmental issues to fatherhood to mountaineering. In reading his poetry Snyder has the appeal of addressing controversial subjects without being preachy. He seems like a cool guy who has had a really interesting life.
Change your view of life
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This book will change your view of the planet you live on and the life you live on it. Pulitzer prize winner Gary Snyder is a voice that needs to be heard (along with others, such as Wendell Berry)to balance the noise we are inundated with via tv, newspapers, etc. These poems take us beyond issues such as "patriotism" and "nationalism" or even "environmentalism" -- and on to more global and universal citizenship issues of which we all need significantly greater awareness.Gary Snyder should be on even more bookshelves than he already is.
Indispensable
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
John Berryman said that the art of poetry was that of developing a personality in words. Gary Snyder is one of the most recognizable and fascinating poetic personalities of our time. Even when he is absent, he is present -- the details he chooses to focus on, the way of perceiving embodied by the poems, tell us as much about his mind ("a mind like compost," as he writes) as any work by the so-called "confessional" poets; but rather than concentrate on tawdry details and domestic crises, Snyder is more interested in the possibilities of mindfulness, the various ways of living well in the world, of carrying out "the real work". Constantly preoccupied, even obsessed, with questions of what to keep and what to throw out, where to withdraw and where to stand firm (see "Front Lines"), Snyder is engaged in the perpetual task of literature: to save what is worth saving, to make it fresh and pass it along. And his ability to find just the right rhythms and words for every situation, sensation or idea is remarkable. I admire him greatly and am grateful for his work.
gary snyder, living treasure
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
if we needed anymore evidence that North Armerica should have Living Treasures much as Japan and China do, i have yet to see it! no nature is the best intro to Snyder's work there is..
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