Regarding Wave (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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“Regarding Wave,” the title poem in Snyder's remarkable 1969 collection of verse, contains references to Asian religion at the very beginning and end. The chief wonder of the poem, however, is more in the ways it performs, rather than alludes to, its religious and ecological ideas.
The title expresses in two simple words a large range of ideas that Snyder explores in the essay “Poetry and the Primitive” in Earth House Hold. According to that essay, in Indo-European etymology the word “yak” is the name of the Muse-like wife of the Hindu god Brahma, and it is...
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