Mountains and Rivers Without End
by Gary Snyder
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781887178570
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When this landmark work was first published, Gary Snyder was honored with the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Orion Societys John Hay Award. Publishers Weekly named Mountains and Rivers Without End one of the best books of 1996. On April 8, 1956, Gary Snyder began work on a long poem entitled Mountains and Rives Without End. Initially inspired by East Asian landscape painting and his own experience within a chaotic universe where everything is in place, Snyders vision was further stimulated by Asian art and drama, Gaia history, Native American performance and storytelling, the practice of Zen Buddhism, and the varied landscapes of Japan, California, Alaska, Australia, China, and Taiwan.While a few individual sections of the poem have been published in literary magazines and a small bound collection, Snyders ardent fans have waited patiently through the past forty years for the completion of Mountains and Rivers Without End. The entire work appears for the first time in this volume.Traveling beyond its origins in the Western tradition of Whitman, Pound, and Williams, Mountains and Rivers is an epic of geology, prehistory, and planetary m
| ISBN-13 | 9781887178570 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1887178570 |
| Weight | 0.44 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.25 x 0.50 x 8.00 In |
| List Price | $14.50 |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 184 pages |
| Publisher | Counterpoint |
| Published On | 1997-09-01 |
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