Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems - Softcover

Snyder, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593760159 ISBN 13: 9781593760151

Publisher: Counterpoint, 2003

Synopsis

Forty-five years ago, Gary Snyder’s first book of poems, Riprap, was published by Origin Press in a beautiful paperbound edition stitched Japanese-style. Around that time Snyder published his translations of Chinese poet Han-Shan’s Cold Mountain Poems in the sixth issue of the Evergreen Review.” Thus was launched one of the most remarkable literary careers of the last century. It is a great gift for all readers to now have this seminal collection back in print.

About this title

About the Author:

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder is the author of many volumes of poetry and essays, including Left Out in the Rain, Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, Mountains and Rivers without End, and The Practice of the Wild. He teaches literature and wilderness thought at the University of California at Davis and lives with his family on the San Juan Ridge in the Sierra foothills.

Review:

"His greatest strength--a quiet and profound elegance, an ability to write a simple phrase that seems to have been echoing through human consciousness for three or four thousand years."

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1593760159
• ISBN 13: 9781593760151
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80