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  • Back on the Fireby Gary Snyder

    Counterpoint 2009; US$ 14.95

    This collection of essays by Gary Snyder, now in paperback, blazes with insight. In his most autobiographical writing to date, Snyder employs fire as a metaphor for the crucial moment when deeply held viewpoints yield to new experiences, and our spirits and minds broaden and mature. Snyder here writes and riffs on a wide range of topics, from our... more...

  • The Practice of the Wildby Gary Snyder

    Counterpoint 2004; US$ 14.95

    Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades. Future readers will come to see this book as one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture. The nine essays in The Practice of the Wild reveal why Snyder has gone on to become one of America?s cultural leaders, comprehending things about our... more...

  • Mountains and Rivers Without Endby Gary Snyder

    Counterpoint 2009; US$ 13.95

    In simple, striking verse, legendary poet Gary Snyder weaves an epic discourse on the topics of geology, prehistory, and mythology. First published in 1996, this landmark work encompasses Asian artistic traditions, as well as Native American storytelling and Zen Buddhist philosophy, and celebrates the disparate elements of the Earth ? sky, rock, water... more...

  • Riprap and Cold Mountain Poemsby Gary Snyder

    Counterpoint 2009; US$ 26.00

    By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, has been influential all over the world. Riprap , his first book of poems, was published in Japan in 1959 by Origin Press, and it is... more...

  • Cold Mountain Poemsby Gary Snyder

    Counterpoint 2013;

    In 1953, Gary Snyder returned to the Bay Area and, at age 23, enrolled in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, to study Asian languages and culture. He intensified his study of Chinese and Japanese, and taking up the challenge of one of his professors, Chen Shih-hsiang, he began to work on translating a largely unknown poet by... more...

  • The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991by Bill Morgan; Gary Snyder; Allen Ginsberg

    Counterpoint 2009; US$ 28.00

    One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Ginsberg introduced Snyder to the East Coast Beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, while Snyder himself became the model for the serious poet that Ginsberg so wanted to become. Snyder encouraged Ginsberg to explore the beauty of the... more...

  • The Etiquette of Freedomby Gary Snyder; Jim Harrison; Paul Ebenkamp

    Counterpoint 2010; US$ 28.00

    Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives and what has become of them throughout the years. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversations?harnessing their ideas of all that is wild, sacred and intimate in this world?move from the admission that Snyder?s mother was a... more...

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