Danger on Peaks Poems

Name: Danger on Peaks Poems
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ISBN: 9781593760809

ISBN-10: 1593760809

ISBN-13: 9781593760809

Edition: 2006

Authors: Gary Snyder, Gary Snyder

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As a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, bioregional activist, Zen Buddhist, and reluctant counterculture guru, Gary Snyder has been a major artistic force in America for over five decades, extending far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into the public eye. "Danger on Peaks" begins with poems about Snyder's first ascent of Mount St. Helens in 1945 and his learning that atomic bombs had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the morning of his descent. Containing work in a surprising variety of styles, creating an arc-shaped trail from these earliest climbs to what the poet calls poems "of intimate, immediate life, gossip and insight," "Danger on Peaks" is Snyder's most…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Publication date: 9/9/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 124
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English




Mount St. Helens


The Mountain


The Climb


Atomic Dawn


Some Fate


1980: Letting Go


Blast Zone


To Ghost Lake


Pearly Everlasting


Enjoy the Day



Yet Older Matters


Brief Years


Glacier Ghosts



Daily Life


What to Tell, Still


Strong Spirit


Sharing an Oyster With the Captain


Summer of '97


Really the Real


Ankle-deep in Ashes


Winter Almond


Mariano Vallejo's Library


Waiting for a Ride



Steady, They Say


Doctor Coyote When He Had a Problem


Claws/Cause


How Many?


Loads on the Road


Carwash Time


To All the Girls Whose Ears I Pierced Back Then


She Knew All About Art


Coffee, Market, Blossoms


In the Santa Clarita Valley


Almost Okay Now


Sus


Day's Driving Done


Snow Flies, Burn Brush, Shut Down


Icy Mountains Constantly Walking


For Philip Zenshin Whalen


For Carole


Steady, They Say



Dust in the Wind


Gray Squirrels


One Day in Late Summer


Spilling the Wind


California Laurel


Baking Bread


One Empty Bus


No Shadow


Shandel


Night Herons


The Acropolis Back When


The Emu


The Hie Shrine and the "One-Tree" District


Cormorants


To Go


One Thousand Cranes


For Anthea Corinne Snyder Lowry


The Great Bell of the Gion



After Bamiyan


After Bamiyan


Loose on Earth


Falling from a Height, Holding Hands


Senso-ji


Envoy


Notes


Thanks


Acknowledgments