Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim
Subtitle: creating countercultural community
By: by Timothy Gray.
Series: Contemporary North American poetry
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Snyder, Gary, 1930- -- Homes and haunts -- Pacific Coast (North America); Snyder, Gary, 1930- -- Knowledge -- Pacific Coast (North America); Snyder, Gary, 1930- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Pacific Coast (North America); Counterculture -- California.; Pacific Coast (North America) -- Intellectual life.; California -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Pacific Coast (North America) -- In literature.
Description: "In Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim, Timothy Gray draws upon previously unpublished journals and letters as well as his own close readings of Gary Snyder's well-crafted poetry and prose to track the early career of a maverick intellectual whose writings powered the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.