The Practice of the Wild
Essays
Published on 8. September 2020
208 pages
978-1-58243-935-8 (ISBN)
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"This is an important book for anyone interested in the ethical interrelationships of things, places, and people, and it is a book that is not just read but taken in." -Library Journal
Featuring a new introduction by Robert Hass, the nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder's work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture.
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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.
Robert Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
Robert Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- The Etiquette of Freedom
- The Compact
- The Words Nature, Wild, and Wilderness
- Wildness
- The World Is Watching
- Back Home
- The Place, the Region, and the Commons
- The World Is Places
- Understanding the Commons
- Bioregional Perspectives
- Finding "Nisenan County"
- Tawny Grammar
- The Same Old Song and Dance
- The Kuuvangmiut and the Humanities
- Nature's Writing
- Mother Leopards
- Good, Wild, Sacred
- Weeding Out the Wild
- Waterholes
- Shrines
- True Nature
- Blue Mountains Constantly Walking
- Fudo and Kannon
- This
- Homeless
- Larger Than a Wolf, Smaller Than an Elk
- Decomposed
- Walking on Water
- Ancient Forests of the Far West
- After the Clearcut
- At Work in the Woods
- Evergreen
- Excursus: Sailor Meadow, Sierra Nevada
- Us Yokels
- On the Path, Off the Trail
- Work in Place of Place
- Freedom at Work
- The Woman Who Married a Bear
- The Story
- On "The Woman Who Married a Bear"
- Maria Johns and the Telling of This Story
- Arkadia
- At the Bear Dance
- Survival and Sacrament
- An End to Birth
- Cultured or Crabbed
- Grace
- Bibliography
- By Way of Thanks
