Snyder ∗real∗ Work – Interviews And Talks 1964–197 9 - Hardcover

SNYDER, G

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811207609 ISBN 13: 9780811207607

Publisher: New Directions Publishing, 1980

Synopsis

[Snyder, Gary]. McLean, Scott [ed.]. The Real Work. Interviews & Talks 1964-1979. Edited with an introduction by Wm. Scott McLean. New York, A New Direction Books, 1980. 13 cm x 20 cm. XVII, 189 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. Inscribed and signed by american poet Greg Hall: 'To you, Dick, in gratitude for those memorable classes'. Contains among others the following chapters: Introduction by Wm. Scott McLean; The Landscape of Consciousness; The Berkeley Barb Interview; Road Apple Interview with Gary Snyder; On Earth Geography; Craft Interview; Knots in the Grain etc. Greg Hall (1946 - June 23, 2009) was an American poet. After some success in the Santa Cruz poetry scenes in the 1970s, Hall mostly ceased publishing his poetry, but he continued to write. In the 1970s, Hall and his family moved to San Jose. For many years Hall then lived alone in sparsely furnished apartments, doing clerical jobs in hospitals and psychiatric wards and writing poetry which he would share with other poets and friends privately, in small gatherings or by mailing off entire manuscripts. He would throw away months' or years' worth of his own poems, once he decided he was done with a particular track of writing and begin again. He had poems published in Ally, the the, radar, Alcatraz, Redwood Coast Review, Montserrat Review, the anthology Cuts from the Barbershop, and the anthology News of the Universe edited by Robert Bly. Hall's writing was strongly intertwined with that of his friends such as F.A. Nettelbeck, Walter Martin, Stephen Kessler, and by the writers and musicians he loved including Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, Stéphane Mallarmé, Miles Davis, and Hank Williams. He had a Beat poet's willingness to range widely over human experience and language, mixing literary, poetic, and pop culture references with pass..

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From the Back Cover

The Real Work is the second volume of Gary Snyder's prose to be published by New Directions. Where his earlier 'Earth House Hold' (1969) heralded the tribalism of the 'coming revolution, ' the interviews in 'The Real Work' focus on the living out of that process in a particular place and time--the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California in the 1970s.

Synopsis

Interviews and essays establish this contemporary American writer's viewpoints on poetry in general, and his poems and philosophy in particular.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811207609
• ISBN 13: 9780811207607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 206