Great Clod (eBook)

Gary Snyder (Autor)

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2016
162 Seiten
Counterpoint (Verlag)
978-1-61902-663-6 (ISBN)

Infos

From the Pulitzer Prizewinning poet of Turtle Island: a meditative, scholarly memoir of Asia';a book ... not quite like any other but trademark Snyder' (Kirkus Reviews). Over the course of his singular career, the Pulitzer Prizewinning poet, essayist, environmental activist, and Beat icon Gary Snyder has derived wisdom and inspiration from his study of Eastern philosophies, cultures, and art. Now, with this collection of eight essays, Snyder offers ';a deceptively small book enfolding a lifetime's worth of study' (Kirkus Reviews). The Great Clod is the culmination of a project that Snyder began in 1969 with the essay ';Summer in Hokkaido,' first published in Coevolution Quarterly. In it and the subsequent entries, most of which are published here for the first time, Snyder weaves together elements of travel memoir and poetic insight with scholarly meditations on civilization's relationship to the environment. The result is a seamless exploration of Asia that ranges from Hokkaido to Kyoto, from the Ainu to the Mongols, from the landscapes of China to the backcountry of Japan, and from the temples of Daitokoji to the Yellow River Valley. Here you will find ';a series of essays on Asia's ecological history, combining culture and politics in a way that is, unsurprisingly, poetic and graceful' (Japan Times).

Autor

Gary Snyder is the author of sixteen 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 and a finalist for the National Book Award in 1992, he has been awarded the Bollingen Poetry Prize and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: a place ins space • axe handles • back country • back on the fire • bill porter • buddhism book • california author • california poet • california writer • china book • cold mountain poems • danger on peaks • distant neighbors • earth house hold • environmental activist author • environmental activist poet • environmental poetry • etiquette of freedom • garry snyde • gary snider • Gary Snyder • high sierra of california • hunted birds • in his fathers village • Jim Harrison • left out in the rain • man of letters • mountains and rivers without end • myths and texts • nature books • nature poetry • Nature writing • nobody home • no nature • old ways • passage through india • practice of the wold • Pulitzer Prize • pulitzer prize poetry • real work • red pine • regarding wave • riprap • tamalpais walking • the great clod • this present moment • tom killion • turtle island • wendell berry • zen book
• ISBN-10: 1-61902-663-5 / 1619026635
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-663-6 / 9781619026636