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  • The Practice of the Wild

    Essays

    by Gary Snyder ...
    A collection of captivatingly meditative essays that display a deep understanding of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world from an American cultural force.With thoughts ranging from political and spiritual matters to those regarding the environment and the art of becoming native to this continent, the nine essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations

    by Gary Snyder ...
    **Finalist in CALIBA's 2022 Golden Poppy Book AwardsA collection of previously uncollected and unpublished works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet Gary Snyder, written during his most productive and important years**Far from being a simple miscellany of poems, Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations contains some of Gary Snyder’s best work, written during his most productive and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Back Country

    by Gary Snyder ...
    “A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit."—Kirkus ReviewsThis collection is made up of four sections: "Far West"—poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; "Far East"—poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto; "Kali"—poems inspired by a visit to India and his reading of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Back on the Fire

    Essays

    by Gary Snyder ...
    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 sense of place and a need to review forestry ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Great Clod

    Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia

    by Gary Snyder ...
    For the full course of his remarkable career, Gary Snyder has continued his study of Eastern culture and philosophies. From the Ainu to the Mongols, from Hokkaido to Kyoto, from the landscapes of China to the backcountry of contemporary Japan, from the temples of Daitokoji to the Yellow River Valley, it is now clear how this work has influenced his poetry, his stance as an environmental and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Turtle Island

    by Gary Snyder ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1975)These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Danger on Peaks

    Poems

    by Gary Snyder ...
    When first published in 2004, Danger on Peaks was the poet's first new collection of poems in twenty years. Perhaps his most personal, autobiographical collection, it begins with the young poet ascending Mt. St. Helens in 1945, a climb accidentally timed with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was 15 years old. Almost sixty years later, after the great Buddhas at Bamiyan Valley were bombed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • This Present Moment

    New Poems

    by Gary Snyder ...
    THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING POETGary Snyder offers over 35 poems inspired by his travels, career, and family—each showcasing the profound elegance and range that make him a legend of 20th-century American poetry.This present momentThat lives onTo becomeLong agoIn this stunning poetry collection, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. From journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Mountains and Rivers Without End

    Poem

    by Gary Snyder ...
    Discover 35+ treasured poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder in this landmark poetry collection celebrating Zen Buddhism, travel, and our connection to nature.“A magnificent achievement . . . like a modern Leaves of Grass, combines fascination with the varied particulars of the way people live with awe at the majesty of nature” —Publishers WeeklyIn simple, striking verse, legendary poet ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Tawny Grammar

    Essays

    by Gary Snyder ...
    Series Book 2 - Counterpoints
    Two beautifully paired essays, “Tawny Grammar” and “Good, Wild, Sacred," serve to offer an autobiographical framework for Gary Snyder's long work as a poet, environmentalist, and a leader of the Buddhist community in North America.He begins standing outside a community hall in Portland, Oregon, in 1943 and concludes as a homesteader in the backcountry of Northern California more than forty–five ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Myths & Texts

    by Gary Snyder ...
    Gary Snyder's second collection, Myths & Texts, was originally published in 1960 by Totem Press. It is now reissued by New Directions in this completely revised format, with an introduction by the author.The three sequences in the book—"Logging," "Hunting," "Burning"—show the remarkable cohesiveness in Snyder's writings over the years, for we find the poet absorbed, then as now, with Buddhist and ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Cold Mountain Poems

    by Gary Snyder ...
    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 the name of Han Shan, a writer with whom the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD