Research Catalog

Title

Collected poems / Gary Snyder ; Jack Shoemaker, Anthony Hunt, editors.

Author

Snyder, Gary, 1930-

Publication

• New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shoemaker, Jack, 1946-
• Hunt, Anthony, 1938-

Description

xxxviii, 1,067 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Summary

"Gary Snyder is one of America's indispensable poets, the "Thoreau of the Beat Generation" and our "laureate of Deep Ecology." Now, for the first time, all of Snyder's poetry is gathered in a single, authoritative Library of America volume. Here are all of Snyder's published books of poetry spanning a career of almost seventy years. Early collections such as Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, Myths & Texts, and The Back Country reflect his hardscrabble rural upbringing in the Pacific Northwest; his life as a logger, fire-lookout, freighter crewman, carpenter, and trail-blazer; his lifelong interest in Native American oral literatures; and his pioneering studies of Zen Buddhism. In Turtle Island and Axe Handles--the former a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and the latter the American Book Award in 1984--he explores countercultural alternatives to environmental and spiritual decline and envisioning new forms of harmony with nature. His epic Mountains and Rivers Without End, a poem four decades in the making and regarded by many as his masterwork, is followed by Danger on Peaks, and the intimate, preternaturally candid late lyrics of This Present Moment, which meditate on his life as a father, husband, friend, neighbor, and homesteader in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada, where he has lived since 1971. The volume concludes with a generous selection, made by Snyder himself, of previously uncollected poems from little magazines and broadsides; translations from East Asian literatures; and drafts and fragments never before published. Also included are explanatory notes, a detailed chronology of Snyder's life, and an essay on textual selection"--

Series Statement

Library of America ; 357

Uniform Title

Library of America ; 357.

Subject

American poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Riprap and cold mountain poems -- Myths & texts -- The back country -- Regarding wave -- Turtle Island -- Axe handles -- Left out in the rain -- From No Nature -- Mountains and rivers without end -- Danger on peaks -- This present moment -- Uncollected poems, drafts, fragments, and translations.

Call Number

PS221

ISBN

• 9781598537215
• 1598537210

LCCN

99990955356

OCLC

1260190489

Author

Snyder, Gary, 1930- author.

Title

Collected poems / Gary Snyder ; Jack Shoemaker, Anthony Hunt, editors.

Publisher

New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Library of America ; 357

Library of America ; 357.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Shoemaker, Jack, 1946- editor.

Hunt, Anthony, 1938- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

99990955356

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PS221 .A4 v. 357