This present moment
Subtitle: new poems
By: Gary Snyder
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9781619025240
Subjects: American poetry
Description: "This present moment That lives on To become Long ago." For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, from Paris and Tuscany to the shrine at Delphi, from Santa Fe to Sella Pass, Snyder lays out these poems as a map of the last decade. Placed side-by-side, they become a path and a trail of complexity and lyrical regard, a sort of riprap of the poet's eighth decade. And in the mix are some of the most beautiful domestic poems of his great career, poems about his work as a homesteader and householder, as a father and husband, as a friend and neighbor. A centerpiece in this collection is a long poem about the death of his beloved, Carole Koda, a rich poem of grief and sorrow, rare in its steady resolved focus on a dying wife, of a power unequaled in American poetry. As a friend is quoted in one of these new poems: "I met the other lately in the far back of a bar, musicians playing near the window and he sweetly told me "listen to that music. The self we hold so dear will soon be gone."" Gary Snyder is one of the greatest American poets of the last century, and This Present Moment shows his command, his broad range, and his remarkable courage. "--
Table of contents: title: Pt.I. Outriders; title: Gnarly; title: The Earth's Wild Places; title: Siberian Outpost; title: Walking the Long and Shady Elwha; title: Charles Freer in a Sierra Snowstorm; title: Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh; title: Artemis and Pan; title: Anger, Cattle, and Achilles; title: A Letter to M.A. Who Lives Far Away; title: The Names of Actaeon's Hounds; title: Old New Mexican Genetics; title: Polyandry; title: Stages of the End of Night and Coming Day; title: Pt.II. Locals; title: Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany; title: Sunday; title: Michael des Tombe at the edge of the Canyon the Killigrew Place; title: Chiura Obata's Moon; title: How to Know Birds; title: Starting the Spring Garden and Thinking of Thomas Jefferson; title: Log Truck on the 80; title: Stories in the Night; title: Morning Songs, Goose Lake; title: Fixing the System; title: "reinventing North America"; title: From the Sky; title: Here; title: Pt.III. Ancestors; title: Eiffel Tundra; title: Kill; title: Claws / Cause; title: Hai-en Temple South Korea Home of the Total Tripitaka Set of Printing Blocks; title: Young David in Florence, Before the Kill; title: Mu Ch'i's Persimmons; title: The Bend in the Vlatava; title: The Shrine at Delphi; title: Wildfire News; title: Otzi Crosses Over; title: Seven Brief Poems from Italia; title: Askesis, Praxis, Theoria, of the Wild; title: Pt.IV. Go Now; title: This present moment