Snyder, Gary 1930-

The practice of the wild : essays by Gary Snyder ( Book )
32 editions published between 1990 and 2011 in English and German and held by 1,835 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The author has been a major cultural force in America for five decades. This book is one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture. These nine essays reveal why he has gone on to become one of America's cultural leaders, comprehending things about our world before they were ever discussed in public. With thoughts ranging from political and spiritual matters to those regarding the environment and the art of becoming native to this continent, this collection of essays, first published in 1990, reflect the mature centerpiece of the author's work and thought

Turtle Island by Gary Snyder ( Book )
27 editions published between 1974 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 1,772 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time

No nature : new and selected poems by Gary Snyder ( Book )
11 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 1,462 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
No Nature marks the first collection from the whole of Snyder's work as a poet

Axe handles : poems by Gary Snyder ( Book )
15 editions published between 1980 and 2005 in English and held by 1,260 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Riprap ; & Cold Mountain poems by Gary Snyder ( Book )
46 editions published between 1965 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, have been influential all over the world. Riprap, his first book of poems, was published in Japan in 1959 by Origin Press, and it is the fiftieth anniversary of that groundbreaking book we celebrate with this edition. A small press reprint of that book included Snyder's translations of Han Shan's Cold Mountain Poems, perhaps the finest translations of that remarkable poet ever made

The back country by Gary Snyder ( Book )
26 editions published between 1966 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mountains and rivers without end by Gary Snyder ( Book )
17 editions published between 1995 and 2009 in English and held by 1,205 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mountains and Rivers is an epic of geology, prehistory, and planetary mythologies. It is a poem about land and its processes, a book about wisdom, compassion, and myth, and a narrative work that is not quite like anything else

Earth house hold; technical notes & queries to fellow dharma revolutionaries by Gary Snyder ( Book )
21 editions published between 1969 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,152 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Regarding wave by Gary Snyder ( Book )
22 editions published between 1967 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,061 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Danger on peaks : poems by Gary Snyder ( Book )
8 editions published between 2004 and 2014 in English and Czech and held by 947 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"When Gary Snyder applied for the position of fire lookout for the U.S. Forest Service in Washington state in 1952 he wrote in his letter, "So I would like your highest, most remote, and most difficult-of-access lookout." He got the job and was sent to Crater Mountain Lookout, the most remote outpost in Washington. But this wasn't his first encounter with dangerous peaks." "This book, Snyder's first collection of new poems in twenty years, begins with poems about an earlier climb - Snyder's first ascent of Mount St. Helens in 1945. He learned of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the morning of his descent, from newspapers delivered to forestry offices on the slopes of the mountain. Climbing, mountain and backwoods encounters begun in those early years of his life set the tone and provided much of the substance for what has followed in the remarkable life of one of America's most revered poets." "Danger on Peaks contains work in a surprising variety of styles, creating an arc-shaped trail from those earliest climbs to what the poet calls poems "of intimate immediate life, gossip and insight" (some of the poet's most personal work ever). Included are poems that work with the magical lyrics of Old Man Coyote and poems in an American / Japanese hybrid, a form of haibun, "haiku plus prose," which will remind readers as much of William Carlos Williams as Basho. The book ends with poems for the Buddhas of Bamiyan Valley, which were blown up by the Taliban, and the World Trade Towers."--BOOK JACKET