The Practice of the Wild: Essays by Gary Snyder - Hardcover

Snyder, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865474532 ISBN 13: 9780865474536

Publisher: North Point Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Essays consider nature, wilderness, and man's place in the natural world

About this title

About the Author:

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder is the author of many volumes of poetry and essays, including Left Out in the Rain, Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, Mountains and Rivers without End, and The Practice of the Wild. He teaches literature and wilderness thought at the University of California at Davis and lives with his family on the San Juan Ridge in the Sierra foothills.

From AudioFile:

Snyder writes as a missionary for the spiritual communions of our earth, but his cause is not well served by his own reading of it. From his very first words, Snyder conveys a sense of pedantry. He lectures carefully, speaking in jerky phrases with odd inflections and spaces his frequent lists as if to allow a student time for note-taking. He compounds this feeling by pronouncing foreign expressions, Native American or Oriental with a meticulous accent. Only when a section takes a narrative tone does his speech accelerate to a more conversational pace. This is a difficult type of literature to read without sounding like horatory. S.B.S. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: North Point Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0865474532
• ISBN 13: 9780865474536
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190