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The Back Country
by [Snyder, Gary]
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This 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 Indian religious texts, particularly those of Shivaism and Tibetan Buddhism; and "Back"--poems done on his return to this country in 1964 which look again at our West with the eyes of India and Japan. The book concludes with a group of translations of the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933), with whose work Snyder feels a close affinity. The title, The Back Country, has three major associations; wilderness. the "backward" countries, and the "back country" of the mind with its levels of being in the unconscious.
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- New Directions Brand
- Jan 17, 1971 Pub Date:
- 9780811201940 ISBN-13:
- 0811201945 ISBN-10:
- 160.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8 in * 0.5 in * 5.2 in Dimensions:
- 0 lb Weight:
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