{"product_id":"gary-snyder-collected-poems-loa-357-book-gary-snyder-9781598537215","title":"Gary Snyder: Collected Poems (LOA #357)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first collected edition of an essential, Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet, the indispensable voice whose deep ecological vision and Buddhist spirituality grows more relevant with each passing decade \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Here are all of Snyder's published books of poetry spanning a career of almost seventy years. Early collections such as \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiprap and Cold Mountain Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMyths \u0026amp; Texts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Back Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTurtle Island\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAxe Handles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e--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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e His epic \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMountains and Rivers Without End\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, a poem four decades in the making and regarded by many as his masterwork, is followed by \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDanger on Peaks\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e and the intimate, preternaturally candid late lyrics of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Present Moment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49546465509649,"sku":"GOR013755594","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49740867862801,"sku":"NGR9781598537215","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50151027310865,"sku":"CIN1598537210VG","price":27.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51038990074129,"sku":"NIN9781598537215","price":40.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51421537173777,"sku":"CIN1598537210G","price":22.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1598537210.jpg?v=1751432402","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/gary-snyder-collected-poems-loa-357-book-gary-snyder-9781598537215","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}