Summary
In Axe Handles Mr. Snyder reveals the roots of community in the family and explores the transmission of cultural values and knowledge.“In making the handle of an axe by cutting wood with an axe the model is indeed near at hand.” In exploring this axiom of Lu Ji’s, Gary Snyder continues-I am an axeAnd my son a handle, soonTo be shaping again, modelAnd tool, craft of culture,How we go on.This is a collection of discovery, of insight, and of vision. These poems see the roots of community in the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781593760571 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1593760574 |
| Author: | Gary Snyder |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 126 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2005 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 139mm |
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“Axe Handles presents poems that reflect a fine balance between physical reality and inner insight. Snyder emphasizes natural cycles, sees the oneness of things rather than their separateness, observes directly without pretense or arrogance… His sense of the history of land and cultures and his ability to write as both the Worker and the Thinker create a fertile whole.”
About The Author
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award. His 1992 collection, No Nature, was a National Book Award finalist, and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, educator and Zen Buddhist.
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