Mountains and Rivers Without End (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Gary Snyder
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Voyages, Philosophy or philosophers, Mythology or myths, Nature, Poetry or poets, Asia or Asians, Environment or environmental health, Buddhism
In 1956, the same year he participated in the historic reading at the Six Gallery in San Francisco where Allen Ginsberg introduced “Howl,” Gary Snyder began a long poetic sequence inspired by and organized around the form of the Chinese and Japanese scroll painting. Already an avid mountain explorer and serious beginning student of Asian culture, Snyder felt that he could express some of the things he found fascinating in the endless, shifting tableaus of earth, water, and sky of the Western Pacific mountains where he grew up by following the form of the panels in Asian landscape...
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