Mountains and Rivers Without End
Poem
Published on 5. October 2018
192 pages
978-1-58243-900-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 - while exploring the human connection to nature with stunning wisdom. Winner of the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Orion Society's John Hay Award, among others, Gary Snyder finds his quiet brilliance celebrated in this new edition of one of his most treasured works.
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Gary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award. His 1992 collection, No Nature, was a National Book Award finalist, and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, educator and Zen Buddhist.
Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- I
- Endless Streams and Mountains
- Old Bones
- Night Highway 99
- Three Worlds, Three Realms, Six Roads
- Jackrabbit
- Bubbs Creek Haircut
- The Elwha River
- Boat of a Million Years
- The Blue Sky
- II
- The Market
- Journeys
- Ma
- Instructions
- Night Song of the Los Angeles Basin
- Covers the Ground
- The Flowing
- The Black-tailed Hare
- With This Flesh
- The Hump-backed Flute Player
- III
- The Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais
- The Canyon Wren
- Arctic Midnight Twilight
- Under the Hills Near the Morava River
- Walking the New York Bedrock
- Haida Gwai North Coast, Naikoon Beach
- New Moon Tongue
- An Offering for Ta-ra-
- The Bear Mother
- Macaques in the Sky
- IV
- Old Woodrat's Stinky House
- Raven's Beak River
- Earrings Dangling and Miles of Desert
- Cross-Legg'd
- Afloat
- The Dance
- We Wash Our Bowls in This Water
- The Mountain Spirit
- Earth Verse
- Finding the Space in the Heart
- The Making of Mountains and Rivers Without End
- NOTES
- The Making of Mountains and Rivers Without End
- By Way of Thanks
- Publication Record
