He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village
The Dimensions of a Haida Myth, With a Foreword by Richard Bringhurst and a New Afterword by the Author
$23.42
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2007
Summary
In 1951, as a student of anthropology in Oregon, Gary Snyder set himself to the task of analyzing the many levels of meaning a single Native American myth might hold. He Who Hunted Birds in His Father’s Village is the result of Snyder’s critical look at a Haida tale that was told by the great oral poet Ghandl (Walter McGregor) to John Swanton sometime before 1905. A version of the ubiquitous “swan maiden” story, it tells of a chief’s son who falls in love with a wild goose-girl, loses her, fo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781593761554 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1593761554 |
| Author: | Gary Snyder, Robert Bringhurst |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2007 |
| Weight: | 203g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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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