{"product_id":"this-present-moment-new-poems","title":"This Present Moment: New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This present moment That lives on  To become  Long ago.\"  For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks  published in 2004  Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites  to the north shore of Lake Tahoe  from Paris and Tuscany to the shrine at Delphi  from Santa Fe to Sella Pass  Snyder lays out these poems as a map of the last decade. Placed sidebyside  they become a path and a trail of complexity and lyrical regard  a sort of riprap of the poets eighth decade. And in the mix are some of the most beautiful domestic poems of his great career  poems about his work as a homesteader and householder  as a father and husband  as a friend and neighbor. A centerpiece in this collection is a long poem about the death of his beloved  Carole Koda  a rich poem of grief and sorrow  rare in its steady resolved focus on a dying wife  of a power unequaled in American poetry.  As a friend is quoted in one of these new poems:  \"I met the other lately in the far back of a bar  musicians playing near the window and he sweetly told me \"listen to that music.  The self we hold so dear will soon be gone.\"\"  Gary Snyder is one of the greatest American poets of the last century  and This Present Moment shows his command  his broad range  and his remarkable courage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44967249084469,"sku":"ByrdShop_1619025248","price":59.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781619025240.jpg?v=1770641425","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/this-present-moment-new-poems","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}