{"product_id":"the-gary-snyder-reader-prose-poetry-and-translations-19521998","title":"The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose  Poetry and Translations 1952-1998","description":"\u003cp\u003eGary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades?prize-winning poet  environmental activist  Zen Buddhist  earth-householder  and reluctant counterculture guru. Having expanded far beyond the Beat scene that first brought his work to the public ear and eye  Snyder has produced a broad-ranging body of work that encompasses his fluency in Eastern literature and culture  his commitment to the environment  and his concepts of humanitys place in the cosmos.  Prose selections include journals from his travels to Saigon  Singapore  Kyoto  Ceylon  New Delhi  and Dharamshala; key interviews from the East West Journal and The Paris Review  meditations on Buddhism and the surrender of self; a cultural survey of communal living; and notes from the lookout tower on Sourdough Mountain  where in stark isolation Snyder once watched for forest fires.  The Reader gathers poems from each phase of Snyders long career?from his fist collection  Riprap  to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Turtle Island  through his epic poem cycle that was forty years in the making  Mountains and Rivers Without End.  From freighter to firetower  Zendo to Himalayan mountain ridge  Snyders writings reflect a lifetime of study  journey  and the practice of everyday mindfulness. Gary Snyder has witnessed and captured our culture at the hinge of change and?time and again?his work has transformed us just as it has altered our understanding of literature and place in a purposeful life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44963236708405,"sku":"ByrdShop_1887178902","price":49.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781887178907.jpg?v=1770409423","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-gary-snyder-reader-prose-poetry-and-translations-19521998","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}