Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim : creating countercultural community / by Timothy Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Timothy, 1964-

Series:

Contemporary North American poetry series.

Contemporary North American poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Pacific Coast (North America).

Authors, American.

Counterculture--California.

Counterculture.

Pacific Coast (North America)--Intellectual life.

Pacific Coast (North America).

California--Intellectual life--20th century.

California.

Pacific Coast (North America)--In literature.

Snyder, Gary, 1930---Homes and haunts--Pacific Coast (North America).

Snyder, Gary.

Snyder, Gary, 1930---Knowledge--Pacific Coast (North America).

Snyder, Gary, 1930---Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim, Timothy Gray draws upon previously unpublished journals and letters as well as his own close readings of Gary Snyder's well-crafted poetry and prose to track the early career of a maverick intellectual whose writings powered the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950's and 1960's. Exploring various aspects of cultural geography, Gray asserts that this west coast literary community seized upon the idea of a Pacific Rim regional structure in part to recognize their Orientalist desires and in part to consolidate their opposition to America's cold war ideology, whi

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; The Pacific Rim and the San Francisco Renaissance: Two Communities ""Taking Place"" in Mid-century America; 1. Migrating: Exploring the Creaturely Byways of the Pacific Northwest; 2. Translating: The Poetics of Linking East and West; 3. Embodying: Human Geography and the Way to the Back Country; 4. Communing: Tribal Passions in the Late 1960's; Digging In: The Reinhabitation of Turtle Island; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-341) and index.

ISBN:

9781587296666

1587296667

OCLC:

219746626