Myths & Texts

Myths & Texts by SNYDER, Gary. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780811206853.

Snyders second book (after Riprap), first edition 1960 in stapled wraps by Totem Press, first New Directions and first hardcover edition 1978. The first printing of the New Directions edition has Snyders name misspelt Synder on both book and jacket. The three sequences in the book—"Logging," "Hunting," "Burning"—show the remarkable cohesiveness in Snyders writings over the years, for we find the poet absorbed, then as now, with Buddhist and Amerindian lore and other interconnections East and West, but above all with the premedical devotion to the land and work.