Gary Snyder : essential prose / Jack Shoemaker, editor ; with an introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snyder, Gary, 1930- author.

Contributor:

Shoemaker, Jack, 1946- editor.

Robinson, Kim Stanley, writer of introduction.

Series:

Library of America ; 391.

The Library of America ; 391

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deep ecology.

Philosophy of nature.

Environmentalism.

Buddhism.

Poets, American--20th century.

Poets, American.

buddhism.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xviii, 679 pages : 21 cm.

Other Title:

Essential prose

Snyder : essential prose

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The Library of America, [2025]

Summary:

Library of America completes its collection of the writings of our "poet laureate of Deep Ecology" with this career-spanning volume of Gary Snyder's essential prose, prepared by his longtime editor in consultation with the author. Including interviews, previously uncollected essays, and selections from works including "Earth house hold," "The practice of the wild," and "A place in space," here are writings on his solitary life as a fire lookout in the mountains of Washington State and his years as a Buddhist initiate; on East Asian literatures and cultures over millenia; on Native American mythology; on wildness and wilderness, seeking wisdom, and living in community; on the ongoing global environmental crisis; and more.

Contents:

Introduction / by Kim Stanley Robinson

from Earth house hold: Lookout's journal ; Japan first time around ; Spring sesshin at Shokoku-ji ; Buddhism and the coming revolution ; Passage to more than India ; Poetry and the primitive ; Suwa-no-se Island and the Banyan ashram

from He who hunted birds in his father's village: The myth ; Function of the myth

from The real work: The real work ; The east west interview ; Poetry, community & climax

from Passage through India: The Cambodge ; Pondicherry ; Khajuraho ; Dharamshala ; Dalai Lama

from The practice of the wild: The etiquette of freedom ; The place, the region, and the commons ; Tawny grammar ; Good, wild, sacred ; Blue mountains and constantly walking ; Ancient forests of the Far West ; On the path, off the trail ; Grace

from A place in space: Smokey the Bear sutra ; Four changes, with a postscript ; "Energy is eternal delight" ; Unnatural writing ; The porous world ; Coming into the watershed ; Kitkitdizze : a node in the net

The Paris Review interview : the art of poetry LXXIV

from Back on the fire: The ark of the Sierra ; Ecology, literature and the new world disorder ; Writers and the war against nature ; Entering the fifth millennium ; Lifetimes with fire ; Regarding "Smokey the Bear sutra"

from Tamalpais walking: Underfoot earth turns

The great clod: Summer in Hokkaido ; All he sees is blue : basic Far East ; The great clod : China and nature ; "Wild" in China ; Ink and charcoal ; Walls within walls ; Beyond Cathay : the hill tribes of China ; Wolf-hair brush

Uncollected essays: Walking the great ridge Omine on the Womb-Diamond Trail

Turn off the calculating mind!

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781598538106

1598538101

OCLC:

1520448144