Gary Snyder
Paperback | Pages: 54 pages Rating: 4.13 | 229 Users | 20 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Myths and Texts |
| ISBN: | 0811206866 (ISBN13: 9780811206860) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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The three sequences in the book—"Logging," "Hunting," "Burning"—show the remarkable cohesiveness in Snyder's 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.Be Specific About Regarding Books Myths Texts
| Title | : | Myths Texts |
| Author | : | Gary Snyder |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 54 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1978 by New Directions (first published 1960) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.13 From 229 Users | 20 ReviewsComment On Regarding Books Myths Texts
These poems linking East and West with an emphasis on ecology grow out of Poundian woodland. Today, their emphasis on recovering a link with the natural world and roots of humanity seems prescient: out current troubled relationship with the Earth is central to Snyder's poetry.Why did I have this as already read? Why did it have 5 stars? What a pack of startling mysteries. Anyway, I didn't hate it.
The good: these poems from the 1950s are published as one entity, whether that was Gary Snyder's original conception or no, as he was writing them down. It is actually called Myths and Texts. And they work as one entity, divided up into three sections, and you get the thoughts, feelings, and observations of a 20-something young man whose love of outdoor living caused him to work both as a summer forest ranger for several years, and as a logger for some other extended period. Later, he went to
Prehistoric rituals, from native tribes to the Bible. Animals and their elements. Vows, cracks, and transformations, snatches of Zen poetry, translated, quotationed. The blessings of work, the history and economy of logging in the Pacific Northwest like a mist through its pines. There are so few fat words; every syllable seems accented."A skin-bound bundle of clutchings unborn and with no place to goBalanced on the boundless compassionof diatoms, lava, and chipmunks." (49)
Short enough to read in one sitting, probably as intended. Parts I enjoyed, the solid imagery, where the vague perhaps mythic portions not so much.
These poems linking East and West with an emphasis on ecology grow out of Poundian woodland. Today, their emphasis on recovering a link with the natural world and roots of humanity seems prescient: out current troubled relationship with the Earth is central to Snyder's poetry.
I first read this book in high school around 1965. In inspired me to explore the forests and high peaks of the American West as well the ideas of Buddhism. I still pick it up to reread periodically. I never tire of it and it remains my favorite book of poetry.
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