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1	Turtle Island more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Riprap & Cold Mountain Poems more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, has been influential all over the world. "Riprap," his first book of poems, was published in Japan in 1959 by Origin Press, and it is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Earth House Hold more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind and Ecology more books like this by Robert Bringhurst, Jim Harrison (Foreword by) add to wishlist "Poems, where I come from," writes Robert Bringhurst, "are spoken to be written and written to be spoken. "The Tree of Meaning" is a book of critical prose composed in the same way." Together, these thirteen lectures present a superbly grounded approach to the study of language, focusing on storytelling, mythology, comparative literature, humanity ... see all copies from $6.54! new only from $10.57! \| SVS
5	The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations more books like this by Gary Snyder, Jim Dodge (Introduction by) add to wishlist A selection of the work of Beat poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist Gary Snyder, this volume concentrates more on non-poetic writings than otherwise. Essays on Buddhism, environmentalism, and his own life join several interviews and a selection of Snyder's letters. see all copies from $9.98! new only from $12.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Danger on Peaks more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist This volume from a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet begins with his 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. It is his most personal work ever. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Axe Handles: Poems more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist This is a collection of discovery, of insight, and of vision. These poems see the roots of community in the family, and the roots of culture and government in the community. "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: And my son a handle, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Back on the Fire: Essays more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist This collection of essays by Gary Snyder, now in paperback, blazes with insight. In his most autobiographical writing to date, Snyder employs fire as a metaphor for the crucial moment when deeply held viewpoints yield to new experiences, and our spirits and minds broaden and mature. Snyder here writes and riffs on a wide range of topics, from our ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.04! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Evaluating the Church Growth Movement: 5 Views more books like this by Paul E Engle (Editor), Dr. Gary L McIntosh (Editor), Howard Snyder (Contributions by) add to wishlist Although the church growth movement has made a significant impact on evangelicals over the past half century, it has also created controversy and division. This careful five-view analysis helps evangelicals understand the movement's strengths and weaknesses and arrive at their own conclusions on issues that affect the future direction of the ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $7.34! \| SVS
10	The High Sierra of California more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist Tom Killion's woodcuts enhance this selection of four decades of journal entries by poet Gary Snyder, a pioneer of the Beat movement. Excerpts by the naturalist John Muir also help contextualize Snyder's observations on nature. see all copies from $10.99! new only from $18.34! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Practice of the Wild more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist A prize-winning collection of essays on the meaning of wildness, freedom, and grace. Snyder suggests that to participate in the human community, we must first establish a responsible relationship to the land. see all copies from $2.01! signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist This title contains 40 years of prose pieces, including talks and reviews, from the poet Gary Snyder, on environmental themes, Buddhist and Native American teachings, Walt Whitman, and his thoughts on the Beats. This is the first book issued by the new publishing house Counterpoint. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Regarding Wave more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist Probing even further than Snyder's previous collection of poems, The Black Country, this 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.' see all copies from $3.90! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14	Old Ways more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist see all copies from $2.91! new only from $65.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979 more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.03! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Mountains and Rivers Without End more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist An epic poem from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, which threads together 39 previously written works (over a period of 40 years) into a cohesive whole. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.38! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Back Country more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist This collection is dedicated to Kenneth Rexroth, whom Snyder acknowledges as an influence on his work. see all copies from $2.59! new only from $5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Opening the Mountain: Circumabulating Mount Tamalpais, a Ritual Walk more books like this by Matthew Davis, Michael Farrell Scott, Gary Snyder (Foreword by) add to wishlist In 1965, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen gathered at the base of Mt. Tamalpais, a lovely small mountain in Marin County that anchors the San Francisco Bay on its northwest side. Inspired by Tibetan and Indian practices of walking clockwise -- "the way of the sun" -- around a venerated object, they "opened the mountain" by completing ... see all copies from $8.61! new only from $12.32! \| SVS
19 view cover	Myths & Texts more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist see all copies from $2.99! new only from $7.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Practice of the Wild: Essays more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist This collection of essays, first published in 1990, stands as the mature centerpiece of Snyder's work and thought. Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades. Future readers will come to see this book as one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Zen Pioneer: The Life & Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki more books like this by Isabel Stirling, Gary Snyder (Foreword by) add to wishlist Ruth Fuller Sasaki, who died in 1967, was a pivotal figure in the emergence and development of Zen Buddhism in the United States. She is the only Westerner--and the only woman--to be made a priest of a Daitoku-ji temple and was mentor to Burton Watson, Philip Yampolsky, and Gary Snyder, and mother-in-law of Alan Watts. This is the first biography ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	The Poet Exposed more books like this by Robert Creeley (Designed by), Gary Snyder (Designed by), Christopher Felver (Photographer) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.33! new only from $59.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	No Nature: New and Selected Poems more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist Collected poems from Gary Snyder, containing parts of eight earlier published books. This book was nominated for a National Book Award. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the Ainu more books like this by Gary Snyder, Donald Philippi (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00!
25 view cover	Passage Through India more books like this by Gary Snyder add to wishlist In 1962, after studying Buddhism in Japan, Gary Snyder, with his former wife, the poet Joanne Kyger, joined Allen Ginsberg and his companion Peter Orlovsky for a long trip to India "to see the hearth-land of the Buddha's teachings." Snyder kept extensive journals of his travels and, in this particular case, also wrote the whole account in one ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS

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