The Back Country [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Poetry)
  • Author:  Snyder, Gary
  • Author:  Snyder, Gary
  • ISBN-10:  0811201945
  • ISBN-10:  0811201945
  • ISBN-13:  9780811201940
  • ISBN-13:  9780811201940
  • Publisher:  New Directions
  • Publisher:  New Directions
  • Pages:  150
  • Pages:  150
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-1971
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-1971
  • SKU:  0811201945-11-MING
  • SKU:  0811201945-11-MING
  • Item ID: 100635070
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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,A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit. 

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