Name: Regarding Wave
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Author: Snyder, Gary
ISBN: 9780811201964

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gary Snyder

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Year

1970

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.2 x 13.3 x 0.7 cm

Weight

0.13 kg.

ISBN

0811201961

ISBN13

9780811201964

Synopsis "Regarding Wave "

Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human affairs--the beautiful, precarious balance among forces and species forms a unifying theme for the new poems in this collection. The title, Regarding Wave, reflects a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.' Central to the work is a cycle of songs for Snyder's wife, Masa, and their first son, Kai. Probing even further than Snyder's previous collection of poems, The Back Country, this new volume freshly explores the most archaic values on earth... the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe..."

Gary Snyder

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Gary Sherman Snyder (San Francisco, May 8, 1930) is a poet, translator, essayist, lecturer, and American environmental activist belonging to the Beat Generation movement and the San Francisco Renaissance. He is considered one of the founders and forerunners of the 1960s countercultural movement. Among other awards, he has received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He has published more than 25 books between 1959 and 2007 (poetry, essays, travel books) and has been translated into more than 20 languages.

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