The Back Country (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811201940)

This collection is made up of four sections: "Far West"--poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; "Far East"--poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto; "Kali"--poems inspired by a visit to India and his reading of Indian religious texts, particularly those of Shivaism and Tibetan Buddhism; and "Back"--poems done on his return to this country in 1964 which look again at our West with the eyes of India and Japan. The book concludes with a group of translations of the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933), with whose work Snyder feels a close affinity. The title, The Back Country, has three major associations; wilderness. the "backward" countries, and the "back country" of the mind with its levels of being in the unconscious.

Author: Gary Snyder
ISBN-10: 0811201945
ISBN-13: 9780811201940
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 01/17/1971
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.91h x 5.21w x 0.44d