Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers without End
COLLECTIBLE SCARCE FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD dust jacket green cloth hardcover, 1967 Fulcrum Press, London, free tracking number, clean NEW text, pages clean and white, solid binding, spine tight NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear / storage-wear; see small edge tear to front cover; jacket inside shows age browning. Cover photograph by Banyan Ashram. WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201604519ucb A magnificent achievement, this epic poem belies the common take that Snyder's poetic career is notable mainly in the past tense and is refracted by the works of others. Without doubt, Snyder's exploration of nature, Zen Buddhism and his travels through unexplored corners of American society influenced the Beat writers of the 1950s and early 1960s, and some of his early works (Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, 1965, and Turtle Island, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975) are masterpieces. This new, vital work sums up stylistic and thematic concerns by uniting 39 poems written between 1956 and 1996 into a seamless whole that, like a modern Leaves of Grass, combines fascination with the varied particulars of the way people live with awe at the majesty of nature. Each of four sections is organized around a familiar Snyder focus: the demands made on people by nature and time (""The road that's followed goes forever;/ in half a minute crossed and left behind""); observation of the terrain he occupies (""Slash of calligraphy of freeways of cars"") and various American landscapes (""trucks on the freeways,/ Kenworth, Peterbilt, Mack,/ rumble diesel depths,/ like boulders bumping in an outwash glacial river""); and subtle tributes to those who have survived the last 40 years. Please choose Priority / Expedited shipping for faster delivery. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.)