Regarding Wave: Poetry

Snyder, Gary

ISBN 10: 0811201961 / ISBN 13: 9780811201964

Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1970

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.28. Seller Inventory # G0811201961I3N00

Synopsis:

A collection of poems that marks Gary Snyder's golden years which would culminate with the Pulitzer Prize winning Turtle Island.

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Regarding Wave: Poetry
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication Date: 1970
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket