The Practice of the Wild: Essays
The Practice of the Wild: Essays
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A collection of captivatingly meditative essays that display a deep understanding of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world from an American cultural force. With thoughts ranging from political and spiritual matters to those regarding the environment and the art of becoming native to this continent, the nine essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder's work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture.
Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 09/08/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781640094215
Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 09/08/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781640094215
About the Author
Gary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award. His 1992 collection, No Nature, was a National Book Award finalist, and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, educator and Zen Buddhist.