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Loading... Turtle Island (A New Directions Book) (original 1974; edition 1974)by Gary Snyder
Work InformationTurtle Island by Gary Snyder (Author) (1974)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. After writing my master's thesis on deep ecology, I was fed up with all that 'eco-lala' for a while - no matter how interesting, I had had enough of all that capitalizing Nature and the true Self ans whatnot. I never had the chance to read Snyder, whose work was referenced often in the writings of Naess and Devall. Having sort of dismissed him as a oh-how-harmonious-nature-is kind of poet, I encountered him again now years later when I have picked up zen meditation again, and I realize that I have done him wrong. Snyder's poems speak to us in times of climate change, they have outlived the hippie epoch and hold up still, inspiring us to engage in the real work, with enough hands-on qualities to invite us to stay with the trouble. Good stuff. no reviews | add a review
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These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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