Gary Snyder

The Back Country

Gary Snyder

Snyder’s 1968 collection, in four sections that map his life to that point: Far West, the Sierra and Northwest of his trail crew and fire lookout years; Far East, Japan and the years in a Kyoto monastery; Kali, India; and…

The Practice of the Wild

Gary Snyder

Nine essays, and the central move is to separate wilderness from wildness. Wilderness is a legal designation; wildness is a quality of self-organizing process, present in an old-growth forest and equally in your own body and in language. Snyder writes…