Turtle Island (New Directions Book) (New Directions Books) - Softcover

Snyder, G

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811205460 ISBN 13: 9780811205467

Publisher: New Directions, 1974

Synopsis

Poetry and prose writings unearth the common origins and survival concerns of the diverse cultures coexiting in America.

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Review:

Snyder is on the side of the gods.--Herbert Leibowitz

An accomplished technician who has learned from the poetry of several languages and who has developed a sure and flexible style capable of handling any material he wishes.--Kenneth Rexroth

Gary Snyder is a rarity in the United States: an immensely popular poet whose work is taken seriously by other poets.--Eliot Weinberger

About the Author:

Born in 1930 in San Francisco, Gary Snyder grew up in the rural Pacific Northwest. He graduated from Reed College in 1951 with degrees in anthropology and literature, and later, 1953-56, studied Japanese and Chinese civilization at Berkeley, returning there to teach in the English Department. After participating in the San Francisco revival, the beginning of the beat poetry movement, with Ginsberg, Whalen, Rexroth and McClure, Snyder quietly went off to Japan in 1955 where he stayed for eighteen months, living in a Zen monastery. In 1958, he joined the tanker "Sappa Creek" and traveled around the world. In early 1959 he again returned to Japan where, apart from six months in India, he studied Kyoto under Oda Sesso Roshi, the Zen master and Head Abbot of Daitoku-Ji. He has spent further time (1966-67) in Japan on a Bollingen research grant. In 1969 he received a Guggenheim grant and toured the Southwestern United States visiting various Indian tribes.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0811205460
• ISBN 13: 9780811205467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112