Turtle Island by Snyder, Gary
Turtle Island by Snyder, Gary

Turtle Island

Describing the title of his collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in his...
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Author: Gary Snyder
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Turtle Island by Snyder, Gary

Turtle Island

$60.28
Turtle Island by Snyder, Gary

Turtle Island

$60.28
Author: Gary Snyder
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Describing the title of his collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in his introductory note that Turtle Island is the old / new name for the continent, based on many creation myths of the people who have been here for millennia, and reapplied by some of them to 'North America' in recent years. The nearly five dozen poems in the book range from the lucid, lyrical, almost mystical to the mytho-biotic, while a few are frankly political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of this land and the ways by which we might become natives of the place, ceasing to think and act (after all these centuries) as newcomers and invaders.

Of particular interest is the full text of the ever more relevant Four Changes, Snyder's seminal manifesto for environmental awareness.



Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 01/17/1974
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780811205450

About the Author
Snyder, Gary: - Born in 1930 in San Francisco, Gary Snyder grew up in the rural Pacific Northwest. He graduated from Reed College in 1951 with degrees in anthropology and literature, and later, 1953-56, studied Japanese and Chinese civilization at Berkeley, returning there to teach in the English Department. After participating in the San Francisco revival, the beginning of the beat poetry movement, with Ginsberg, Whalen, Rexroth and McClure, Snyder quietly went off to Japan in 1955 where he stayed for eighteen months, living in a Zen monastery. In 1958, he joined the tanker Sappa Creek and traveled around the world. In early 1959 he again returned to Japan where, apart from six months in India, he studied Kyoto under Oda Sesso Roshi, the Zen master and Head Abbot of Daitoku-Ji. He has spent further time (1966-67) in Japan on a Bollingen research grant. In 1969 he received a Guggenheim grant and toured the Southwestern United States visiting various Indian tribes.
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