The Great Clod (ePub)
Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia
(Sprache: Englisch)
For the full course of his remarkable career, Gary Snyder has continued his study of Eastern culture and philosophies. From the Ainu to the Mongols, from Hokkaido to Kyoto, from the landscapes of China to the backcountry of contemporary Japan, from the...
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For the full course of his remarkable career, Gary Snyder has continued his study of Eastern culture and philosophies. From the Ainu to the Mongols, from Hokkaido to Kyoto, from the landscapes of China to the backcountry of contemporary Japan, from the temples of Daitokoji to the Yellow River Valley, it is now clear how this work has influenced his poetry, his stance as an environmental and political activist, and his long practice of Zen. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Asia became a vocation for Snyder. While most American writers looked to the capitals of Europe for their inspiration, Sndyer looked East. American letters is profoundly indebted to this geographical choice.
Long rumored to exist, The Great Clod collects more than a dozen chapters, several published in The Coevolution Quarterly almost forty years ago when Snyder briefly described this work as "The China Book,” and several others, the majority, never before published in any form. "Summer in Hokkaido,” "Wild in China,” "Ink and Charcoal, " "Stories to Save the World,” "Walking the Great Ridge,” these essays turn from being memoirs of travel to prolonged considerations of art, culture, natural history and religion. Filled with Snyder's remarkable insights and briskly beautiful descriptions, this collection adds enormously to the major corpus of his work, certain to delight and instruct his readers now and forever.
Long rumored to exist, The Great Clod collects more than a dozen chapters, several published in The Coevolution Quarterly almost forty years ago when Snyder briefly described this work as "The China Book,” and several others, the majority, never before published in any form. "Summer in Hokkaido,” "Wild in China,” "Ink and Charcoal, " "Stories to Save the World,” "Walking the Great Ridge,” these essays turn from being memoirs of travel to prolonged considerations of art, culture, natural history and religion. Filled with Snyder's remarkable insights and briskly beautiful descriptions, this collection adds enormously to the major corpus of his work, certain to delight and instruct his readers now and forever.
Autoren-Porträt von Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award. His 1992 collection, No Nature, was a National Book Award finalist, and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, educator and Zen Buddhist.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gary Snyder
- 2016, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: CATAPULT
- ISBN-10: 1619026635
- ISBN-13: 9781619026636
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2016
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“Snyder’s essays meander along several unbeaten paths and provide still moments deserving of contemplation.” —Japan Times“The noted poet and essayist returns with a deceptively small book enfolding a lifetime’s worth of study . . . a kind of personalized digest of scholarship and history blended with memoir and travelogue—a book, in short, not quite like any other but trademark Snyder, its learning lightly worn but profoundly stated . . . Elegant and thoughtful, with much to read between the lines in commentary on a long life’s work. Students and admirers of Snyder will be enchanted and intrigued.” —Kirkus Reviews
“[Snyder] may well be the first American poet since Thoreau to devote a great deal of thought to the way one ought to live and to make his own life one of the possible models . . . Gary Snyder has become, as US poet laureate Robert Hass put it, ‘a major poet and ethical voice’ in American letters.” —The Paris Review
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