Name: the back country
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Author: Snyder, Gary
ISBN: 9780811201940

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gary Snyder

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.2 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.17 kg.

ISBN

0811201945

ISBN13

9780811201940

Synopsis "the back country"

This collection is made up of four sections: Far West--poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; Far East--poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto; Kali--poems inspired by a visit to India and his reading of Indian religious texts, particularly those of Shivaism and Tibetan Buddhism; and Back--poems done on his return to this country in 1964 which look again at our West with the eyes of India and Japan. The book concludes with a group of translations of the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933), with whose work Snyder feels a close affinity. The title, The Back Country, has three major associations; wilderness. the backward countries, and the "back country of the mind with its levels of being in the unconscious.

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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