Danger on Peaks: Poems (Inscribed First Edition)

Snyder, Gary

ISBN 10: 1593760418 / ISBN 13: 9781593760410

Published by Shoemaker Hoard, Washington D.C., 2004

About this Item

First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A tight clean copy. (The audio CD which was issued with the book is not present; slight scuff to front pastedown where CD was affixed). Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page to prior owners, along with date. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.

Seller Inventory # Rear-Poetry-Snyder

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Danger on Peaks: Poems (Inscribed First Edition)
• Publisher: Shoemaker Hoard, Washington D.C.
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593760418
• ISBN 13: 9781593760410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

When first published in 2004, Danger on Peaks was the poet's first new collection of poems in twenty years. Perhaps his most personal, autobiographical collection, it begins with the young poet ascending Mt. St. Helens in 1945, a climb accidentally timed with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was 15 years old. Almost sixty years later, after the great Buddhas at Bamiyan Valley were bombed and with the victims of the World Trade Center also "turned to dust," the poet composed a prayer while at Short Grass Temple in Senso–ji, a pilgrim on the path of Kannon, Goddess of Mercy.



This remarkable collection was greeted with broad praise, and as Julia Martin proclaimed, "Moving between relative and absolute ways of seeing, [Snyder] responds to the experience of global conflict and personal pain by reminding readers of the continuity of wildness, affirming the value of art, and invoking an ancient practice of wisdom and compassion."

About the Author

Gary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award. His 1992 collection, No Nature, was a National Book Award finalist, and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, educator and Zen Buddhist.