SNYDER GARY

(P/B) TURTLE ISLAND
Describing the title of his latest Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in his introductory note that Turtle Island is "the old new name for the continent, based on many creation myths of the people who have been here for millennia, and reapplied by some of them to 'North America' in recent years." The nearly five dozen poems in the book range from the lucid, lyrical, almost mystical to the mytho-biotic, while a few are frankly political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscov...
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(H/B) GARY SNYDER: COLLECTED POEMS
Gary Snyder is one of America's indispensable poets. Winner of the Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, among many others, he is also the unofficial "poet laureate of deep ecology," an influential seeker of alternatives to Western modes of living and thinking, and for many, a kind of personal sage, his poetry a species of wisdom literature. With this Library of America edition, Snyder's poetry has been collected for the first time in a single, authoritative volume, prepared in close collaboration with the author. Here are all eleven books of poe...
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ΓΚΑΡΥ ΣΝΑΙΝΤΕΡ

(H/B) THIS PRESENT MOMENT
For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself roaming 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 side by side, they become a path and a trail of complexity and lyrical regard, a sort of riprap of the poet's eighth decade. And in the mix are some of the most beautiful domestic poems of his grea...
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