This Present Moment by Gary Snyder
"This present moment
That lives on
To become
Long ago."
For his first collection of new poems since his celebratedDanger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, from Paris and Tuscany to the shrine at Delphi, from Santa Fe to Sella Pass, Snyder lays out these poems as a map of the last decade. Placed side-by-side, they become a path and a trail of complexity and lyrical regard, a sort of riprap of the poet's eighth decade. And in the mix are some of the most beautiful domestic poems of his great career, poems about his work as a homesteader and householder, as a father and husband, as a friend and neighbor. A centerpiece in this collection is a long poem about the death of his beloved, Carole Koda, a rich poem of grief and sorrow, rare in its steady resolved focus on a dying wife, of a power unequaled in American poetry.
As a friend is quoted in one of these new poems:
"I met the other lately in the far back of a bar,
musicians playing near the window and he
sweetly told me "listen to that music.
The self we hold so dear will soon be gone.""
Gary Snyder is one of the greatest American poets of the last century, andThis Present Moment shows his command, his broad range, and his remarkable courage.
That lives on
To become
Long ago."
For his first collection of new poems since his celebratedDanger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, from Paris and Tuscany to the shrine at Delphi, from Santa Fe to Sella Pass, Snyder lays out these poems as a map of the last decade. Placed side-by-side, they become a path and a trail of complexity and lyrical regard, a sort of riprap of the poet's eighth decade. And in the mix are some of the most beautiful domestic poems of his great career, poems about his work as a homesteader and householder, as a father and husband, as a friend and neighbor. A centerpiece in this collection is a long poem about the death of his beloved, Carole Koda, a rich poem of grief and sorrow, rare in its steady resolved focus on a dying wife, of a power unequaled in American poetry.
As a friend is quoted in one of these new poems:
"I met the other lately in the far back of a bar,
musicians playing near the window and he
sweetly told me "listen to that music.
The self we hold so dear will soon be gone.""
Gary Snyder is one of the greatest American poets of the last century, andThis Present Moment shows his command, his broad range, and his remarkable courage.
GARY SNYDER is an environmental activist, poet, essayist, and lecturer. The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1975), the American Book Award (1984), the Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1997), the John Hay Award for Nature Writing (1997), and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2008) are among his many achievements. He is renowned as the Poet Laureate of Deep Ecology, and his poetry displays an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. He is often associated with the Beat Movement and the San Francisco Renaissance. Snyder has translated ancient Chinese and modern Japanese literature into English.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781619025240 |
| ISBN 10 | 1619025248 |
| Title | This Present Moment |
| Author | Gary Snyder |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Counterpoint |
| Year published | 2015-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 88 |
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