Uncollected poems, drafts, fragments, & translations

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Uncollected poems, drafts, fragments, & translations

Author:

Snyder, Gary, 1930- author.

ISBN:

9781640095779

Physical Description:

xiii, 92 pages ; 22 cm

Personal Subject:

Snyder, Gary, 1930--Literary collections.

Subject Term:

American poetry, 21st century.

Summary:

A collection of previously uncollected and unpublished works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet Gary Snyder, written during his most productive and important years Far from being a simple miscellany of poems, Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations contains some of Gary Snyder s best work, written during his most productive and important years. Many of these have been published in magazines or as broadsides, including Spel Against Demons, Dear Mr. President, Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco, Smokey the Bear Sutra, A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon. The collection also includes a great number of translations from Chinese and Japanese poets. Much of this work has been gleaned from journals, manuscripts and correspondence, and never before published in any form.

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Finalist in CALIBA's 2022 Golden Poppy Book Awards

A collection of previously uncollected and unpublished works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poet Gary Snyder, written during his most productive and important years

Far from being a simple miscellany of poems, Uncollected Poems, Drafts, Fragments, and Translations contains some of Gary Snyder's best work, written during his most productive and important years.

Many of these have been published in magazines or as broadsides, including Spel Against Demons , Dear Mr. President , Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco , Smokey the Bear Sutra , A Curse on the Men in Washington , Pentagon . The collection also includes a great number of translations from Chinese and Japanese poets. Much of this work has been gleaned from journals, manuscripts and correspondence, and never before published in any form.

Author Notes

GARY SNYDER is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970, he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. His 1992 collection, No Nature , was a National Book Award finalist, and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, educator, and Zen Buddhist.

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Composed during some of Snyder's most productive years, these previously uncollected and unpublished works by the Pulitzer Prize--winning Beat poet sing with history, politics, and place, offering new glimpses into Snyder's verse. "A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon," dating from June 1967, declares, "As you shoot down the Vietnamese girls and men/ in their fields/ burning and chopping,/ poisoning and blighting,// So surely I hunt the white man down/ in my heart." The poem ends, "This magic I work, this loving I give/ that my children may flourish// And yours won't thrive." "What a life!" captures the ecstatic focus and compressed vision the poet is known for: "the single fly/ in the spotless Forest Service/ campground/ toilet" (Candle Creek, Oregon). Translations of Chinese and Japanese poets add another layer to Snyder's preoccupations, such as "After Doˉgen": "Mimulus on the cliffside in April/ Nuthatches in the summer pines/ Cranes calling south in September/ Winter pond-ice crackling bright." Readers drawn to Snyder's irrepressible energy will find this a worthy addition to his established body of work. (Aug.)

Editorial Note	p. xiii
Reed College Poems	p. 3
Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco in Paradise	p. 7
The Elwha River	p. 11
A Lion Dream	p. 14
A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon	p. 16
Smokey the Bear Sutra	p. 18
Kumarajiva's Mother	p. 22
Song to the Raw Material	p. 24
Down	p. 25
Swimming Naked in the Yuba River	p. 27
The California Water Plan	p. 28
Greasy Boy	p. 31
"I saw the Mother once"	p. 32
Tomorrow's Song	p. 33
Gold, Green	p. 34
"The delicacy of the mountains"	p. 35
"Emptiness, anti-entropy ultimate"	p. 36
"The dried out winter ricefields"	p. 37
"At Sarnath"	p. 38
Haiku	p. 39
On the train	p. 41
"Nothing at the center"	p. 42
Needles Country of the Canyonlands	p. 43
from "A Single Breath"	p. 46
from "Coming into the Watershed"	p. 47
Ravynes Fly East	p. 48
Daconstruction	p. 49
Mountains Walk on Water	p. 50
from "Allen Ginsberg Crosses Over"	p. 51
from "The Cottonwoods"	p. 52
Where the Sammamish, the Snohomish, and the Skykomish All Come In	p. 53
from "Writers and the War Against Nature"	p. 54
What a life!	p. 55
Nine frags	p. 56
The Dancer Is a Weaver	p. 60
The Goosenecks of the San Juan	p. 61
Where	p. 62
Victoria Falls and Zimbabwe	p. 63
By the Chobe River	p. 67
For Robert Duncan	p. 68
Song for Wrecked Cars	p. 69
After Dögen	p. 70
Having Seen on Earth	p. 71
Bai Juyi's "Long Bitter Song"	p. 73
Long Bitter Song	p. 75
Sixteen T'ang Poems	p. 82
Two Poems by Meng Hao-jan	p. 83
Five Poems by Wang Wei	p. 84
Three Poems for Women in the Service of the Palace	p. 86
Spring View	p. 87
Parting from Ling Ch'e	p. 88
Climbing Crane Tower	p. 89
River Snow	p. 90
Parting with Hsin Chien at Hibiscus Tavern	p. 91
Two Poems Written at Maple Bridge Near Su-chou	p. 92

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