This collection features twenty-nine essays written over the past forty years. Displaying Snyders playful and subtle intellect, these pieces challenge commonly held attitudes toward the environment and local communities, and call for action to give moral standing to all beings.
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This richly rewarding book about ecology and technology draws on 40 years of careful thought. Although it does not dwell on information technologies, the points Snyder makes about "a feeling of place" are of interest to anyone who has mulled over the ways in which cyberspace jogs our normative notions of time, space, and community.
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Poet Snyder presents a selection of essays, many concerned with the environment, spanning 40 years.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Wide ranging insights into Gary Snyder's lifetime concerns,
This review is from: A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds (Paperback)
I bought this book, along with the poetry collection, No Nature, to gain an insight into the work of Gary Snyder, someone I had often seen quoted, but had never read at first hand. Snyder is perhaps best known as a west coast 'nature' poet, a fellow traveller of the 'beat generation', but he is also a prominent Buddhist, bioregional visionary and literary scholar. To judge from this book he is, moreover, an accomplished and eloquent essayist. The essays presented here, articles, reviews, talks and what might loosely be called manifestos, come mainly from the 70s to the 90s and span the breadth of Snyder's interests. Arranged in three sections, Ethics, Aesthetics and Watersheds, Snyder's writing manages to be poetic, religious, political and compelling at all times. Having read this book I feel inspired to read more, I'll try The Practice of the Wild next (more prose), followed by Turtle Island (poetry for which Snyder won the Pulitzer Prize). For anyone concerned to cultivate a humane relationship with the more-than-human world, Snyder is a surefooted guide.
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Gary Snyder, one the Beat Poets is still able to pull me in and hold me in what ever space he occupies. This book, a collection of essays draws on a long history of environmental stories and poems, and contains one of my favorites "The Smokey the Bear Sutra" This is the essence of Gary Snyder, funny, pointed and stick in your mind forever!
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In the spiritual and political loneliness of America of the fifties you'd hitch a thousand miles to meet a friend. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Turtle Island, San Francisco, United States, North America, Native American, New York, Four Changes, Sierra Nevada, First Precept, American Indian, Forest Service, The Politics of Ethnopoetics, Walt Whitman, West Coast, Allen Ginsberg, Big Sur, Kenneth Rexroth, Single Breath, Third World, World War, Columbia River, Coyote Man, Democratic Vistas, Survival of Coyote New!
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In the spiritual and political loneliness of America of the fifties you'd hitch a thousand miles to meet a friend. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Turtle Island, San Francisco, United States, North America, Native American, New York, Four Changes, Sierra Nevada, First Precept, American Indian, Forest Service, The Politics of Ethnopoetics, Walt Whitman, West Coast, Allen Ginsberg, Big Sur, Kenneth Rexroth, Single Breath, Third World, World War, Columbia River, Coyote Man, Democratic Vistas, Survival of Coyote New!
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- Democratic Vistas (Notable American Authors) by Walt Whitman on page 214, page 215, and page 217
- The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston on page 89
- Singing for Power by Ruth Murray Underhill on page 147
- American Poetry by Gay W. Allen on page 13
- Mother Nature: Animal Parents and Their Young by Candace Savage on page 177
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- Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World by Anna L. Peterson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism (Nature, Culture and Literature 3) (Nature, Culture & Literature) by Catrin Gersdorf; Sylvia Mayer (Eds.) on page 207, and page 434
- The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism by Laurence Coupe in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism by Stephanie Kaza in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reading The Trail: Exploring The Literature And Natural History Of The California Crest (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series) by Corey Lee Lewis on page 11, and page 235
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