The Great Clod by Gary Snyder

The Great Clod by Gary Snyder

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet of Turtle Island a meditative, scholarly memoir of Asia--a book . . . not quite like any other but trademark Snyder (Kirkus Reviews).

Over the course of his singular career, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, essayist, environmental activist, and Beat icon Gary Snyder has derived wisdom and inspiration from his study of Eastern philosophies, cultures, and art. Now, with this collection of eight essays, Snyder offers a deceptively small book enfolding a lifetime's worth of study (Kirkus Reviews).

The Great Clod is the culmination of a project that Snyder began in 1969 with the essay 'Summer in Hokkaido, ' first published in Coevolution Quarterly. In it and the subsequent entries, most of which are published here for the first time, Snyder weaves together elements of travel memoir and poetic insight with scholarly meditations on civilization's relationship to the environment. The result is a seamless exploration of Asia that ranges from Hokkaido to Kyoto, from the Ainu to the Mongols, from the landscapes of China to the backcountry of Japan, and from the temples of Daitokoji to the Yellow River Valley.

Here you will find a series of essays on Asia's ecological history, combining culture and politics in a way that is, unsurprisingly, poetic and graceful (Japan Times).

Snyder, Gary: - Born in 1930 in San Francisco, Gary Snyder grew up in the rural Pacific Northwest. He graduated from Reed College in 1951 with degrees in anthropology and literature, and later, 1953-56, studied Japanese and Chinese civilization at Berkeley, returning there to teach in the English Department. After participating in the San Francisco revival, the beginning of the beat poetry movement, with Ginsberg, Whalen, Rexroth and McClure, Snyder quietly went off to Japan in 1955 where he stayed for eighteen months, living in a Zen monastery. In 1958, he joined the tanker Sappa Creek and traveled around the world. In early 1959 he again returned to Japan where, apart from six months in India, he studied Kyoto under Oda Sesso Roshi, the Zen master and Head Abbot of Daitoku-Ji. He has spent further time (1966-67) in Japan on a Bollingen research grant. In 1969 he received a Guggenheim grant and toured the Southwestern United States visiting various Indian tribes.

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Titel	The Great Clod
Autor	Gary Snyder
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Counterpoint
Erscheinungsjahr	2020-06-09
Seitenanzahl	160
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