The Back Country

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
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Author: Gary Snyder ISBN: 9780811222808
Publisher: New Directions Publication: January 17, 1971
Imprint: New Directions Language: English
Author: Gary Snyder
ISBN: 9780811222808
Publisher: New Directions
Publication: January 17, 1971
Imprint: New Directions
Language: English

“A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit."—Kirkus Reviews

“A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit."—Kirkus Reviews

This collection is made up of four sections: "Far West"—poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; "Far East"—poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto; "Kali"—poems inspired by a visit to India and his reading of Indian religious texts, particularly those of Shivaism and Tibetan Buddhism; and "Back"—poems done on his return to this country in 1964 which look again at our West with the eyes of India and Japan. The book concludes with a group of translations of the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933), with whose work Snyder feels a close affinity. The title, The Back Country, has three major associations; wilderness. the "backward" countries, and the “back country" of the mind with its levels of being in the unconscious.

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“A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit."—Kirkus Reviews

“A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit."—Kirkus Reviews

This collection is made up of four sections: "Far West"—poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; "Far East"—poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto; "Kali"—poems inspired by a visit to India and his reading of Indian religious texts, particularly those of Shivaism and Tibetan Buddhism; and "Back"—poems done on his return to this country in 1964 which look again at our West with the eyes of India and Japan. The book concludes with a group of translations of the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933), with whose work Snyder feels a close affinity. The title, The Back Country, has three major associations; wilderness. the "backward" countries, and the “back country" of the mind with its levels of being in the unconscious.

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