| Author/Contributor(s): | Snyder, Gary; Shoemaker, Jack; Robinson, Kim Stanley |
| Publisher: | Library of America |
| Date: | 5/13/2025 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Here is Gary Snyder's own selection of his pathbreaking environmental essays, Buddhist journals, poetic notebooks, and more, including previously uncollected material
Gathered for the first time in a single volume and completing the definitive Library of America edition of his works, here is the essential prose of our “poet laureate of deep ecology”: philosophical essays, travel journals, poetic notebooks, reflections on Buddhism, environmental polemics, memoirs, speeches, interviews, letters, and other writings spanning the entire arc of Snyder’s lauded, seventy-year career. All of Snyder’s published prose collections are represented, omitting only items he feels are repetitious or merely occasional, followed by a selection of from his private journals. The volume includes:
- Earth House Hold: describing his life as a fire lookout in Washington State in the early 1950s, and his experiences as an initiate in a Kyoto monastery
- “Poetry and the Primitive," a kind of “ecological survival technique"
- “Buddhism and the Coming Revolution," which imagines the “nation-shaking implications” of spiritual discovery
- He Who Hunted Birds in His Father’s Village, charting Snyder's deep engagements with Native American mythology
- Passage Through India: about a six-month pilgrimage with his wife and the poet Allen Ginsberg, culminating in a meeting with the Dalai Lama.
- The Practice of the Wild: a classic of American environmental writing in the tradition of Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Annie Dillard
- The essays in A Place in Space and Back on the Fire: exploring bioregionalism, forestry practices, sustainability, and the ecosystems of the Sierra Nevada, where Snyder has lived since 1970
- The Great Clod: a mediation on the intersections of nature and culture in Asian history and literature.