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Turtle Island / Gary Snyder.
LIBRA - Special PS3569.N88 T8
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snyder, Gary, 1930-
- Series:
- New Directions book
- A New Directions book
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Lask, Thomas (donor) (RBC copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 114 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 1974.
- Summary:
- Describing the title of his collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in his introductory note that Turtle Island is "the old / new name for the continent, based on many creation myths of the people who have been here for millennia, and reapplied by some of them to 'North America' in recent years." The nearly five dozen poems in the book range from the lucid, lyrical, almost mystical to the mytho-biotic, while a few are frankly political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of this land and the ways by which we might become natives of the place, ceasing to think and act (after all these centuries) as newcomers and invaders. Of particular interest is the full text of the ever more relevant "Four Changes," Snyder's seminal manifesto for environmental awareness.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 0811205452
- OCLC:
- 901204
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