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Axe Handles: Poems

by Gary Snyder

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Gary Snyder continues to be a leading speaker for
"the real work, what must be done" = reinhabiting
Turtle Island. In our minds, in our real lives.

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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0865471207, Paperback)

The title poem of this collection may be Snyder's strongest poem of the 1980s, and this is high praise. Incorporating Snyder's familiar and welcome themes of nature, family and eastern philosophy, it is a passage into a world of insights, small epiphanies, the rhythms of nature and culture, speech and sky, revealing themselves between these lines. Do yourself a favor and take a look at Axe Handles.

(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:00:14 -0500)

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