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The Gary Snyder Reader
by Gary Snyder
ISBN: 1582430799
ISBN-13: 9781582430799
Format: Paperback
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Summary
A selection of the work of Beat poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist Gary Snyder, this volume concentrates more on non-poetic writings than otherwise. Essays on Buddhism, environmentalism, and his own life join several interviews and a selection of Snyder's letters.
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"A celebrated beatnik, mountaineer, environmental crusader, essayist and poet, Gary Snyder has lived a life worthy of the epic he has finally finished."
-- New York Times Magazine
"It is an axiom of his work that the world is too full of beauty...to justify a sour temperament, and that sourness only adds to an already prevalent blight on the loveliness....Snyder's prose poses a reminder by contrast of how often social criticism is crabbed and vindictive, and how much environmental thought is ascetic and angry. A high regard for sensual pleasure, all things festive, and the impulse to improve and enrich one's life fill Snyder's writing...." -- Jedediah Purdy
-- Boston Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published date: 2000
Size: 6 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.9 pounds
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