Real Matter - Hardcover
In six essays and a side trip, Robertson (English, U. of California-Davis) relates and recreates the experience of people who walk in the wilderness and return to write about it. Among them are Fitz Hugh Ludlow in Yosemite in 1863 and Clarence King from the Great Western Divide to the Sierra Nevada in 1864. Most attention however is paid to modern writers Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Philip Whalen, and Allen Ginsberg in California in the 1950s and 1960s. Paper edition (unseen) $15.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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"I wanted to see if I could arrive in the heart of the wild by making a path out of words and photographs." The reader picks up the author's trail which meanders among words like secret, nature, wildness, cosmos, space, time, physics, capitalism, self-help, solitude, culture, land, hero, soundness, freedom, community, and walking with a poetic tendency for evoking ancestors and memories, nuance and resonance, accrued meanings and levels of significance. Robertson's book is a kind of exegesis. The first text was land - Yosemite, the Sierra Nevada, Mt. Tamalpais, etc. It inspired commentaries by Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Clarence King, Mary Austin, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac and others. Robertson considers both the land and the responses, continuing and adding to a tradition of myth making and a religion of nature. His purpose is large and generous. He is sharing walks, drives, places, and books that are important in his life. Hikers, nature lovers, poetic souls, and people concerned with contemporary human and ecological dilemmas will want to engage with real matter - "rock, air, fire, wood, Hershey bars, and past events" - and become walking participants in the related and interwoven world envisioned as a prerequisite to knowledge of wildness. -- From Independent Publisher
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- PublisherUniv of Utah Pr
- ISBN 10 0874805333
- ISBN 13 9780874805338
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
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