books by Gary Snyder     books:       Mountains and Rivers Without End8 reviews Gary Snyder Counterpoint, 1996 Golden nugget Golden nugget from Sierra streams. Gold never rusts.             Back on the Fire: Essays3 reviews Gary Snyder Counterpoint, 2008 Poet, Essayist Gary Snyder on Sustainability and Literature Snyder has lived in the Sierra Nevada foothills since 1970. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1975 for "Turtle Island," he has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, in 1992 and 2005. He is a recipient of the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2004 Japanese Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Grand Prize. His latest ...             The High Sierra of California3 reviews Gary Snyder, Tom Killion, ... Heyday Books, 2002 howl at the moon hop up and down in your Teva sandals. Wade the great streams as they roar over round stones down from ancient peaks... dance the silver dance of the wild rainbow... but find a place in your ultralight backpack for this book. It deserves a place next to that bag of peanuts, your titanium cup; worth its weight in gold dust from the river, split pea soup from the pouch. Ancient shaman tales and ...             Opening the Mountain: Circumambulating Mount Tamalpais, A Ritual Walk3 reviews Matthew Davis, Michael Farrell Scott Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006 Wonderful Stunning photos and thoughtful writings make this book refreshing and unique. Opening the Mountain has a beautiful zen-like quality that takes the reader on an unforgettable journey. This is a fantastic book to own and would also be a great gift for a loved one!             The Gary Snyder Reader8 reviews Gary Snyder Counterpoint, 1999 Teacher, Intellect, Poet and hero, Gary Snyder is for you! Gary Snyder is an amazing person. He is an intellect. He is a poet. He is a teacher, a traveler, and he is a deeply spiritual man. He lives the life that we should all attempt to lead, a conscious thinking, methodical, contemplative life, asking questions arriving at conclusions and taking action. The Gary Snyder Reader is a good compilation of his life's work, the variety inside includes essay, ...             Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems6 reviews Gary Snyder North Point Press, 1990 "Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup." Amidst the poetry of the Sixties, Gary Snyder's early poems stood out as something very special, and are still very special. In contrast to the obscure and convoluted writings of an assortment of neurasthenic, super-sophisticated, and compulsive scribblers, types so totally and utterly wrapped up in themselves that they completely overlooked that insignificant thing hovering outside their ...             Wisdom of the East5 reviews Audio Literature, 1997 A reader new to the Eastern philosophy Highly recommended reading, inspirational, insightful, instructional, spiritual and wise. This book is wonderful for those, like myself, who are not familiar with the Asian spiritual philosophy, religion and traditions. Your guides are the authors of each short story, giving a glimpse into how their own lives have been changed by believing in this extraordinary way of life. This book breaks ...             Earth House Hold: Technical Notes and Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries3 reviews Gary Snyder Jonathan Cape, 1970 Another side of Snyder From the outset, I have to say that I like Gary Snyder a lot. Less pretentious than Ferlenghetti and more perceptive than Ginsberg, his poems are like modern haiku, brilliant observations and juxtapositions that somehow manage to express what most artists simply cannot. _Earth House Home_ is a collection of Snyder's prose, which happily enjoys the same distinction. It's an eclectic mix, with ...             The Back Country2 reviews Gary Snyder New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1971 Beautiful, Understated, Moving Poetry I had to read many of the poems in this volume while taking a college course in Beat Literature, but in this reviewer's opinion the careful, Eastern-oriented poetry by Snyder has a mystical quality sorely lacking in poetry by writers like Kerouac, Corso, Ferlinghetti and even Ginsberg. Snyder captures the mountains of the pacific northwest, human relationships, campfires, and the mysteries ...             "Forest Beatniks" and "Urban Thoreaus": Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure3 reviews Rod Phillips, Gary Snyder, ... Peter Lang Publishing, 2001 The Beats Reconsidered--Finally Finally, a scholar has dug through the pop culture mud of the Beats to bedrock below: They weren't just citified tea-heads as Life magazine in the Fifties (and too many academics since) would have us believe. These writers were deeply tuned into the natural world and drew upon it for inspiration and some of their best writing--even the seemingly most urban of the lot--Kerouac. Case and point: ...             Grrrrr: A Collection Of Poems About Bears1 review Elaine Magarrell, Kay Van Natta, ... Arctos Press, 2000 Poetry & Bears go well together! Like poetry? Want to know more about bears? This book is a MUST. It's a big, generous collection of bear poems about every imaginable kind of bear: grizzlies, brown bears, teddy bears, chain saw bear sculptures, bears of Native American legend, etc. etc. etc. You name the bear and he or she may be found in this collection. The collection has moving poems, funny ones, spiritual ones. And ...             Songs of gods, songs of humans: The epic tradition of the Ainu1 review Princeton University Press, 1979 A find I came to this book as a complete outsider, having no background in Ainu culture. The songs are simply among the most beautiful religious poetry of any culture, any time. I'm so sorry this book is no longer in print - I would have given it as a gift to my friends and relatives.             No Nature6 reviews Gary Snyder Pantheon, 1992 The best of Gary Snyder, America's Zen Poet I first heard of Gary Snyder when I stumbled across his answer to the question as to whether he would rather hear a poem by a raccoon or a possum. Snyder's answer was: "A raccoon's poem is alert and inquisitive, and amazes you by what a mess it makes. A possum's poem seems sort of slow and dumb at first, but then it rolls over. When you get close to it, it spits in your eye." I am not sure ...             Axe Handles: Poems1 review Gary Snyder North Point Press, 1982 Life's cycles: shaped by the axe, patterns at hand... The cycles of life, and the cycles within our lives and those which can be experienced and observed in the world around us link the poetry in Gary Snyder's Axe Handles. Attracted by the settings of Snyder's California poems, I've been further drawn to the images and experiences described in them. "Getting in the Wood," "Working on the '58 Willy's Pickup," "Look Back," the selections in "Little ...             A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds1 review Gary Snyder Counterpoint, 2008 Wide ranging insights into Gary Snyder's lifetime concerns 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 ...             The Practice of the Wild: Essays5 reviews Gary Snyder North Point Pr, 1990 A beautiful collection from a national treasure When asked to recommend one book for young people, writer Jim Harrison picked "The Practice of the Wild" for its poetic sanity. I read Snyder's unpretentious collection while commuting on the train every morning one summer into downtown Chicago. The epiphanies came fast and furious as I sped through the city's West Side. The wisdom of Snyder's thinking is that he doesn't blindly differentiate ...             The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry2 reviews New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2003 Making It New The rediscovery of Greek and Roman literature kickstarted the Renaissance in Europe. In a similar way, though on a somewhat smaller scale, the conveniently Imagist makeover of Chinese poetry by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell undoubtedly had a seismic and far-reaching effect on later 20th century American poetry. In his learned Introduction to this outstanding and indispensable Anthology, Weinberger ...             The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen (Wesleyan Poetry)1 review Philip Whalen Wesleyan, 2007 The Beat Louvre This remarkable collection gathers the full range of work from one of the 20th century's most unpretentious experimenters with the form and matter of poetry. Granted, 800 pages is a lot of anyone, even a poet as great and under-read as Whalen, and the gain in information comes with a corresponding loss in shape. Whalen's refusal to separate writing from the business-as-usual work of living gives ...             Passage through India1 review Gary Snyder Grey Fox Press, 2001 great travel diary, this book really makes you want to get out the old rucksack and hit the road, or seas, or however you'd get to india from where ever you are.... good old allen ginsberg pops in for a bit of the trip too!             Zen Pioneer: The Life and Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki1 review Isabel Stirling Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006 As a blend of biography and religious literature, it can't be beat. ZEN PIONEER: THE LIFE & WORKS OF RUTH FULLER SASAKI offers a survey of the life of a spirited Chicago turn of the century woman who might as easily have become a society matron, but chose the path of Buddhism at the time - a path most odd for a woman of her stature and upbringing. She was the only Westerner - and only woman - to be made a priest of the Daitoku-ji temple, and here provides three ...              search for books aesthetics, anthology, beatniks, california, chinese, circumambulating, classical, collected, collection, country, directions, handles, kerouac, mcclure, michael, mountain, mountains, opening, pioneer, practice, queries, revolutionaries, tamalpais, technical, thoreaus, through, tradition, watersheds, wesleyan, without books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen toys & games: Fisher-Price Rock-A-Stack we recommend Teacher, Intellect, Poet and hero, Gary Snyder is for you! leave a comment home  impressum - about us