No Nature
, by SNYDER, GARYNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780679742524 | 0679742522
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 9/7/1993
"The greatest of living nature poets. . . . It helps us to go on, having Gary Snyder in our midst."--Los Angeles Times. Snyder is the author of many volumes of poetry and prose, including The Practice of the Wild and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Turtle Island. Reading tour. From the Trade Paperback edition.
GARY SNYDER is a poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His accolades include the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1975), the American Book Award (1984), the Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1997), the John Hay Award for Nature Writing (1997), and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2008). Often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance, he is known as “the Poet Laureate of Deep Ecology,” and his poetry reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder served as a faculty member at the University of California, Davis, and he also served for a time on the California Arts Council.
Preface | |
from Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems | |
Riprap | |
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout | p. 4 |
The Late Snow and Lumber Strike of the Summer of Fifty-four | p. 5 |
Piute Creek | p. 6 |
Milton by Firelight | p. 7 |
Above Pate Valley | p. 9 |
Water | p. 10 |
Hay for the Horses | p. 11 |
Thin Ice | p. 12 |
Nooksack Valley | p. 13 |
All through the Rains | p. 14 |
Migration of Birds | p. 15 |
Toji | p. 16 |
Kyoto: March | p. 17 |
The Sappa Creek | p. 18 |
Goofing Again | p. 19 |
Cartagena | p. 20 |
Riprap | p. 21 |
Cold Mountain Poems | |
"The path to Han-shan's place is laughable," | p. 23 |
"In a tangle of cliffs I chose a place - " | p. 23 |
"In the mountains it's cold." | p. 23 |
"Men ask the way to Cold Mountain" | p. 24 |
"I settled at Cold Mountain long ago," | p. 24 |
"Clambering up the Cold Mountain path," | p. 24 |
"I have lived at Cold Mountain" | p. 25 |
"Spring-water in the green creek is clear" | p. 25 |
"In my first thirty years of life" | p. 25 |
"I can't stand these bird-songs" | p. 26 |
"There's a naked bug at Cold Mountain" | p. 26 |
"Cold Mountain is a house" | p. 26 |
"Once at Cold Mountain, troubles cease - " | p. 27 |
"Some critic tried to put me down - " | p. 27 |
"I've lived at Cold Mountain - how many autumns." | p. 28 |
"My home was at Cold Mountain from the start," | p. 28 |
"When men see Han-shan" | p. 28 |
from Myths and Texts | |
Logging | |
"The morning star is not a star" | p. 34 |
"But ye shall destroy their altars," | p. 35 |
"'Lodgepole Pine: the wonderful reproductive" | p. 36 |
"Pines, under pines," | p. 37 |
"Felix Baran" | p. 38 |
"Ray Wells, a big Nisqually, and I" | p. 39 |
"Each dawn is clear" | p. 40 |
"A green limb hangs in the crotch" | p. 41 |
"The groves are down" | p. 42 |
"Lodgepole" | p. 43 |
Hunting | |
first shaman song | p. 45 |
this poem is for birds | p. 46 |
this poem is for bear | p. 47 |
this poem is for deer | p. 49 |
"Sealion, salmon, offshore - " | p. 51 |
"Flung from demonic wombs" | p. 52 |
"Now I'll also tell what food" | p. 53 |
"How rare to be born a human being!" | p. 54 |
Burning | |
second shaman song | p. 56 |
Maudgalyayana saw hell | p. 57 |
Maitreya the future Buddha | p. 58 |
"Face in the crook of her neck" | p. 59 |
John Muir on Mt. Ritter | p. 60 |
Amitabha's vow | p. 61 |
"Spikes of new smell driven up nostrils" | p. 62 |
"Stone-flake and salmon." | p. 64 |
"'Wash me on home, mama'" | p. 66 |
the text | p. 67 |
from Mountains and Rivers Without End | |
Bubbs Creek Haircut | p. 71 |
The Blue Sky | p. 76 |
from The Back Country | |
Far West | |
A Berry Feast | p. 84 |
Marin-an | p. 89 |
Sixth-Month Song in the Foothills | p. 90 |
The Spring | p. 91 |
A Walk | p. 92 |
Fire in the Hole | p. 93 |
Burning the Small Dead | p. 95 |
Foxtail Pine | p. 96 |
August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer | p. 98 |
Oil | p. 99 |
Once Only | p. 100 |
After Work | p. 100 |
For the Boy Who Was Dodger Point Lookout Fifteen Years Ago | p. 101 |
Far East | |
Yase: September | p. 103 |
Pine River | p. 104 |
Vapor Trails | p. 105 |
The Public Bath | p. 106 |
A Volcano in Kyushu | p. 108 |
Four Poems for Robin | p. 109 |
The Firing | p. 112 |
Work to Do Toward Town | p. 113 |
Nansen | p. 114 |
Six Years | p. 115 |
Kali | |
For a Stone Girl at Sanchi | p. 132 |
North Beach Alba | p. 133 |
Could She See the Whole Real World With her Ghost Breast Eyes Shut Under a Blouse Lid? | p. 134 |
Night | p. 135 |
This Tokyo | p. 136 |
The Manichaeans | p. 138 |
Mother of the Buddhas, Queen of Heaven, Mother of the Sun; Marici, Goddess of the Dawn | p. 140 |
On Our Way to Khajuraho | p. 141 |
Circumambulating Arunachala | p. 142 |
7: VII | p. 143 |
Nanao Knows | p. 144 |
The Truth like the Belly of a Woman Turning | p. 145 |
For John Chappell | p. 146 |
Go Round | p. 147 |
Back | |
The Old Dutch Woman | p. 149 |
For the West | p. 150 |
7. IV. 64 | p. 153 |
Twelve Hours Out of New York After Twenty-Five Days at Sea | p. 154 |
Across Lamarck Col | p. 155 |
Hop, Skip, and Jump | p. 156 |
Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills, Your Body | p. 157 |
Through the Smoke Hole | p. 159 |
from Regarding Wave | |
Wave | p. 165 |
In the House of the Rising Sun | p. 166 |
Song of the Tangle | p. 167 |
Song of the Slip | p. 168 |
Song of the Taste | p. 169 |
Kyoto Born in Spring Song | p. 170 |
Burning Island | p. 172 |
Roots | p. 174 |
Rainbow Body | p. 175 |
Everybody Lying on Their Stomachs, Head Toward the Candle, Reading, Sleeping, Drawing | p. 177 |
Shark Meat | p. 178 |
The Bed in the Sky | p. 179 |
Kai, Today | p. 180 |
Not Leaving the House | p. 181 |
Regarding Wave | p. 182 |
Revolution in the Revolution in the Revolution | p. 183 |
What You Should Know to Be a Poet | p. 184 |
Aged Tamba Temple Plum Tree Song | p. 185 |
It | p. 186 |
Running Water Music | p. 188 |
Sours of the Hills | p. 189 |
The Wild Edge | p. 190 |
The Trade | p. 191 |
To Fire | p. 192 |
Love | p. 194 |
Meeting the Mountains | p. 195 |
Running Water Music II | p. 196 |
Long Hair | p. 197 |
Target Practice | p. 199 |
from Turtle Island | |
Manzanita | |
Anasazi | p. 206 |
The Way West, Underground | p. 207 |
The Dead by the Side of the Road | p. 209 |
I Went into the Maverick Bar | p. 211 |
No Matter, Never Mind | p. 212 |
The Bath | p. 213 |
Spel Against Demons | p. 216 |
Front Lines | p. 218 |
Control Burn | p. 219 |
The Call of the Wild | p. 220 |
Prayer for the Great Family | p. 223 |
Manzanita | p. 225 |
Magpie's Song | |
The Real Work | p. 227 |
Pine Tree Tops | p. 228 |
For Nothing | p. 229 |
Night Herons | p. 230 |
The Egg | p. 232 |
By Frazier Creek Falls | p. 234 |
It Pleases | p. 235 |
Mother Earth: Her Whales | p. 236 |
Ethnobotany | p. 239 |
Straight-Creek - Great Burn | p. 240 |
Two Fawns That Didn't See the Light This Spring | p. 242 |
Two Immortals | p. 243 |
Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen | p. 244 |
"One Should Not Talk to a Skilled Hunter About What Is Forbidden by the Buddha" | p. 245 |
L M F B R | p. 246 |
Magpie's Song | p. 247 |
For the Children | |
Gen | p. 249 |
Tomorrow's Song | p. 250 |
What Happened Here Before | p. 251 |
Toward Climax | p. 254 |
Two Logging Songs | p. 258 |
For the Children | p. 259 |
As for Poets | p. 260 |
from Axe Handles | |
Loops | |
Axe Handles | p. 266 |
River in the Valley | p. 267 |
Berry Territory | p. 269 |
The Cool Around the Fire | p. 270 |
Changing Diapers | p. 271 |
Painting the North San Juan School | p. 272 |
Fence Posts | p. 273 |
Look Back | p. 275 |
Soy Sauce | p. 277 |
Strategic Air Command | p. 279 |
Working on the '58 Willys Pickup | p. 280 |
Getting in the Wood | p. 282 |
True Night | p. 283 |
Little Songs for Gaia | p. 286 |
Nets | |
Three Deer One Coyote Running in the Snow | p. 293 |
24:IV:40075, 3:30 PM, n. of Coaldale, Nevada, A Glimpse through a Break in the Storm of the Summit of the White Mountains | p. 294 |
Talking Late with the Governor about the Budget | p. 295 |
"He Shot Arrows, But Not at Birds Perching" | p. 296 |
What Have I Learned | p. 297 |
Dillingham, Alaska, the Willow Tree Bar | p. 298 |
Removing the Plate of the Pump on the Hydraulic System of the Backhoe | p. 299 |
Uluru Wild Fig Song | p. 300 |
Old Rotting Tree Trunk Down | p. 303 |
Old Woman Nature | p. 305 |
The Canyon Wren | p. 306 |
For All | p. 308 |
from Left Out in the Rain | |
Elk Trails | p. 311 |
Lines on a Carp | p. 313 |
A Sinecure for P. Whalen | p. 314 |
Message from Outside | p. 315 |
Under the Skin of It | p. 316 |
"dogs, sheep, cows, goats" | p. 317 |
Seaman's Ditty | p. 318 |
Poem Left in Sourdough Mountain Lookout | p. 319 |
Late October Camping in the Sawtooths | p. 320 |
Point Reyes | p. 321 |
Makings | p. 322 |
Longitude 170[actual symbols not reproducible] West, Latitude 35[actual symbols not reproducible] North | p. 323 |
For Example | p. 324 |
Bomb Test | p. 325 |
Dullness in February: Japan | p. 326 |
The Feathered Robe | p. 327 |
On Vulture Peak | p. 329 |
Straits of Malacca 24 Oct 1957 | p. 333 |
The Engine Room, S.S. Sappa Creek | p. 334 |
The North Coast | p. 336 |
One Year | p. 337 |
Three Poems for Joanne | p. 339 |
Crash | p. 341 |
Saying Farewell at the Monastery after Hearing the Old Master Lecture on "Return to the Source" | p. 342 |
Alabaster | p. 343 |
The Years | p. 344 |
No Shoes No Shirt No Service | p. 345 |
High Quality Information | p. 346 |
The Arts Council Meets in Eureka | p. 347 |
Arktos | p. 348 |
Fear Not | p. 349 |
We Make Our Vows Together with All Beings | p. 350 |
At White River Roadhouse in the Yukon | p. 351 |
The Persimmons | p. 352 |
Tiny Energies | p. 354 |
No Nature | |
How Poetry Comes to Me | p. 361 |
On Climbing the Sierra Matterhorn Again After Thirty-one Years | p. 362 |
Kusiwoqqobi | p. 363 |
The Sweat | p. 364 |
Building | p. 366 |
Surrounded by Wild Turkeys | p. 368 |
Off the Trail | p. 369 |
Word Basket Woman | p. 371 |
At Tower Peak | p. 373 |
Right in the Trail | p. 375 |
Travelling to the Capital | p. 377 |
Thoughts on Looking at a Samuel Palmer Etching at the Tate | p. 378 |
Kisiabaton | p. 379 |
For Lew Welch in a Snowfall | p. 380 |
Ripples on the Surface | p. 381 |
Index of Titles and First Lines | p. 383 |
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