Earth House Hold (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gary Snyder
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Journals, essays, and translations
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Family or family life, Self-discovery, Marriage, Religion, Poetry or poets, Native Americans or American Indians, Ecology
Snyder derived the title for his first book of collected prose from wordplay on the root of the word “ecology.” As he points out in the key essay in the book, “Poetry and the Primitive,” “eco” comes from the Greek work oikos, meaning “house.” Thus Snyder playfully renders “ecology” as “earth house hold”—as a perspective that compels humans to consider the entire “earth” as a “house” that they must “hold” with more tenderness and reverence.
The book gathers journals, essays, and translations from 1952 to 1969, a period of many changes...
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