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The Back Country

The Back Country

Snyder, Gary

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 0811201945
ISBN13: 9780811201940
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Jan 17 1971
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.21 Depth: 7.91
Language: English
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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