No Nature (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Gary Snyder
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Native Americans or American Indians, Spiritualism, Metaphysics, Ecology, Environment or environmental health, Zen Buddhism
Gary Snyder began his adult life not as a poet but as a professional student, first at Reed College (where he studied literature and anthropology) and later at the University of California, Berkeley (where he pursued the study of Oriental languages). He also studied Zen Buddhism for many years at a monastery in Kyoto, Japan, interrupting that period briefly for a pilgrimage to the sacred shrines of India. Before and after these undertakings, Snyder schooled himself in the ordinary disciplines of the laboring life by working as a deckhand, logger, and forester. From the very outset of...
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