No Nature: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)

by Gary Snyder (Author)

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Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Pantheon; Reprint edition (Sep 7 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679742522
ISBN-13: 978-0679742524
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 341 g

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From Publishers Weekly

This first selected edition of Snyder's poetry offers an overview of a career spanning more than 30 years, from his emergence as a poet of the Beat Generation to his eventual focus on nature and environmentalism.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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No nature is "a magnificent selection of the best of Snyder's career" (LJ 9/1/92), still going strong with the recent Mountains and Rivers Without End.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Change your view of life, Feb 3 2004

By	riprapnc (Matthews, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This book will change your view of the planet you live on and the life you live on it. Pulitzer prize winner Gary Snyder is a voice that needs to be heard (along with others, such as Wendell Berry)to balance the noise we are inundated with via tv, newspapers, etc. These poems take us beyond issues such as "patriotism" and "nationalism" or even "environmentalism" -- and on to more global and universal citizenship issues of which we all need significantly greater awareness.

Gary Snyder should be on even more bookshelves than he already is.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Stripping poetry down to its bare bones., Dec 30 2001

By	Theodore E. Kim (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Gary Snyder is a master of condensation. Somehow, using an economy of words, he conveys a clear sense of "the moment" -- sitting on a mountain top; snuggling by the fire; walking on a crowded street. It's a new kind of minimalist poetry that, once read, makes some of the older stuff seem, well, old. Snyder's forte is poems about nature. One of my favorites, called "Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout" consists of just 10 lines. But I've read it a hundred times, and the words still ring true in my mind. He writes: "I cannot remember things I once read / A few friends, but they are in cities. / Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup / Looking down for miles / Through high still air." "On Nature" is a collection of Snyder's best and most important works. I highly recommend it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable, Mar 4 1999

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John Berryman said that the art of poetry was that of developing a personality in words. Gary Snyder is one of the most recognizable and fascinating poetic personalities of our time. Even when he is absent, he is present -- the details he chooses to focus on, the way of perceiving embodied by the poems, tell us as much about his mind ("a mind like compost," as he writes) as any work by the so-called "confessional" poets; but rather than concentrate on tawdry details and domestic crises, Snyder is more interested in the possibilities of mindfulness, the various ways of living well in the world, of carrying out "the real work". Constantly preoccupied, even obsessed, with questions of what to keep and what to throw out, where to withdraw and where to stand firm (see "Front Lines"), Snyder is engaged in the perpetual task of literature: to save what is worth saving, to make it fresh and pass it along. And his ability to find just the right rhythms and words for every situation, sensation or idea is remarkable. I admire him greatly and am grateful for his work.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Snyder, remains as always, the subject of his poetry.
Nowhere in modern poetry is there a poet who sells himself as much as Snyder. His poetry is rarely original and largely, embarassingly pillaged from various other systems and... Read more

Published on Aug 14 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars gary snyder, living treasure
if we needed anymore evidence that North Armerica should have Living Treasures much as Japan and China do, i have yet to see it! Read more

Published on Aug 25 1997