Archive for the ‘Gary Snyder’ Category
Lookout
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2001
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout … I cannot remember things I once read A few friends, but they are in cities. Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup Looking down for miles Through high still air. Gary Snyder from No Nature Although Bill and I couldn’t avoid talking about the state of the nation on [...]
A War Against Earth
Saturday, November 24th, 2001
Gary Snyder reminds me more of Edward Abbey than any poet. His poems look at nature, and at life, from radically diverse perspectives. In his preface to No Nature he says, "There is no single or set "nature, either as ‘natural world’ or the ‘nature of things.’ The greatest respect we can pay to nature [...]
I Expected More from Mountains and Rivers
Monday, May 6th, 2002
I’ve been looking forward to reading Mountains and Rivers Without End since I read Dharma Bums several months ago. In fact, much of my motivation for studying the Beat poets was to gain the background needed to fully appreciate this work. I figured this would be the climax of that study, and I could move [...]
Snyder begins the Journey
Tuesday, May 7th, 2002
Mountains and Rivers Without End is admirably ambitious. As the jacket notes, it was “Initially inspired by East Asian landscape painting and his [Snyder’s] own experience within ‘a chaotic universe where everything is in place,’ Snyder’s vision was further stimulated by Asian art and drama, Gaia history, Native American performance and storytelling, the practices of [...]
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