The Back Country Signed by Gary Snyder
Language: English
Published by New Directions, New York, 1971
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Gotcha By The Books, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaGotcha By The Books
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Condition: Used - Good
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Poetry sequence by Gary Snyder, in four sections Far West, Far East, Kali, and Back; flat-signed by Snyder to title page; mild worn patches to half-title page, mild creases to edges of some pages, reverse sides of covers tanned front and rear, mild toning to edges of pages, o.w. G-VG; wraps lightly edgeworn and rubbed, label ghost to rear. . 150pp. 8vo. Good.
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- Title
- The Back Country Signed by Gary Snyder
- Author
- Snyder, Gary
- Publisher
- New Directions, New York
- Publication year
- 1971
- Condition
- Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0811201945
- ISBN 13
- 9780811201940
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
- Dimensions
- 8vo
- Seller catalogs
- Poetry
“A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit."―Kirkus Reviews
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, The Back Country, has three major associations; wilderness. the "backward" countries, and the “back country" of the mind with its levels of being in the unconscious."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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