Why read Mountains And Rivers Without End?

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In simple, striking verse, legendary poet Gary Snyder weaves an epic discourse on the topics of geology, prehistory, and mythology. First published in 1996, this landmark work encompasses Asian artistic traditions, as well as Native American storytelling and Zen Buddhist philosophy, and celebrates the disparate elements of the Earth …

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Jeffrey Dunn

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I’ve heard Gary Snyder speak three times. He can be tersely observational, deadly serious, puckishly whimsical, or well-deep mythic, sometimes all at once. All of this is true of Mountains and Rivers Without End, a volume of poems where Snyder does in poetry what Japanese artists did in their landscapes.

Here you will find a series of varied Zen-inspired meditations and Native-American-inspired folktales that draw from his Beat friends, his “Dharma teachers,” and “hosts of poets and writers, scientists, scholars, craftspersons, river-and-mountains people, fields-and-orchards people, and streets-and-buildings people.”

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