The Real Work

The Real Work

Author: Gary Snyder

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780811207614

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American poet Gary Snyder on poetics, tribalism, ecology, Zen Buddhism, meditation, the writing process, and more.


Mountains and Rivers Without End

Mountains and Rivers Without End

Author: Gary Snyder

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2018-10-05

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1582439001

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In simple, striking verse, legendary poet Gary Snyder weaves an epic discourse on the topics of geology, prehistory, and mythology. First published in 1996, this landmark work encompasses Asian artistic traditions, as well as Native American storytelling and Zen Buddhist philosophy, and celebrates the disparate elements of the Earth — sky, rock, water — while exploring the human connection to nature with stunning wisdom. Winner of the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Orion Society's John Hay Award, among others, Gary Snyder finds his quiet brilliance celebrated in this new edition of one of his most treasured works.


Turtle Island

Turtle Island

Author: Gary Snyder

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780811205467

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Poems.


Zen Buddhism & Psychoanalysis

Zen Buddhism & Psychoanalysis

Author: Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780285647473

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The key book in our quest for understanding of ourselves and our lives.What differences are there in Eastern and Western thought regarding the nature of the human mind and our role in the cosmos? How can Zen and psychoanalysis help us in our struggle to realise our full potential as human beings and members of society?Erich Fromm's seminal work among contemporary efforts to resolve our spiritual crisis results here in the great achievement of a language to reveal the contributions of Zen and psychoanalysis to our 'struggle to be fully born'. He shows how both can teach us in their different ways to live our lives rather than be 'lived by them'.D.T. Suzuki explains with profound and gentle wisdom how Western materialism and intellectualism contrast with the Eastern concept of acceptance as the basis of well-being for the 'whole man'. His illuminating discussion of the unconscious and the self shed fresh light on our understanding of our own nature.Combined with Richard De Martino's clear account of the psychology of Zen, these writings make up a work of brilliance and value that has much to help us in our quest for understanding.


Earth House Hold

Earth House Hold

Author: Gary Snyder

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1969-06-17

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0811222683

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Both Pound and Williams have shown a good poet can revitalize prose style. Earth House Hold (a play on the root meaning of "ecology"), drawn from Gary Snyder's essays and journals, may prove a landmark for the new generation. "As a poet," Snyder tells us, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe." He develops, as replacement for shattered social structures. a concept of tribal tradition which could lead to "growth and enlightenment in self-disciplined freedom. Whatever it is or ever was in any other culture can be reconstructed from the unconscious through meditation...the coming revolution will close the circle and link us in many ways with the most creative aspects of our archaic past."


Myths & Texts

Myths & Texts

Author: Gary Snyder

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780811206860

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Gary Snyder's second collection, Myths & Texts, was originally published in 1960 by Totem Press. It is now reissued by New Directions in this completely revised format, with an introduction by the author.


Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism

Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism

Author: Dale S. Wright

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-08-28

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780521789844

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This book is the first to engage Zen Buddhism philosophically on crucial issues from a perspective that is informed by the traditions of western philosophy and religion. It focuses on one renowned Zen master, Huang Po, whose recorded sayings exemplify the spirit of the 'golden age' of Zen in medieval China, and on the transmission of these writings to the West. The author makes a bold attempt to articulate a post-romantic understanding of Zen applicable to contemporary world culture. While deeply sympathetic to the Zen tradition, he raises serious questions about the kinds of claims that can be made on its behalf.


Regarding Wave: Poetry

Regarding Wave: Poetry

Author: Gary Snyder

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1970-01-17

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 0811222829

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The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.'" "Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human affairs"––the beautiful, precarious balance among forces and species forms a unifying theme for the new poems in this collection. The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.'" Central to the work is a cycle of songs for Snyder's wife, Masa, and their first son, Kai. Probing even further than Snyder's previous collection of poems, The Back Country, this new volume freshly explores "the most archaic values on earth… the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe…”


The Elements of Zen

The Elements of Zen

Author: David Scott

Publisher: Element Books, Limited

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781862040427

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The essence of this practical method of realizing the Buddhic nature is explained dearly and concisely.


The Back Country

The Back Country

Author: Gary Snyder

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1971-01-17

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0811222802

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“A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit."—Kirkus Reviews This collection is made up of four sections: "Far West"—poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; "Far East"—poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto; "Kali"—poems inspired by a visit to India and his reading of Indian religious texts, particularly those of Shivaism and Tibetan Buddhism; and "Back"—poems done on his return to this country in 1964 which look again at our West with the eyes of India and Japan. The book concludes with a group of translations of the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933), with whose work Snyder feels a close affinity. The title, The Back Country, has three major associations; wilderness. the "backward" countries, and the “back country" of the mind with its levels of being in the unconscious.