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A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds
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Overview
A volume of passionate essays on environmental awareness by a Bollingen Poetry Prize- and Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award-winning poet includes twenty-nine pieces that span half a century of writing, in a collection that includes his 1971 manifesto "Four Changes." Reprint.
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In this classic collection of 29 pieces that span half a century, Gary Snyder explores humans' complex, ever-evolving attitudes toward the environment. He argues that nature is not separate from humanity, but intrinsic to it, and that since societies are natural constructs, it's imperative to go beyond racial, ethnic, and religious identities to find a shared concern for acts that benefit humans and nonhumans alike. Included in the collection is his 1971 environmental manifesto “Four Changes,” which, as he writes in a postscript, is unfortunately truer than ever. In this new edition, Snyder sends out a call-to-action that challenges all beings to take moral responsibility, a call that resounds with readers discovering the book for the first time or those returning to an old favorite. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 272
Dimensions: Length: 0.75" Width: 5.5" Height: 8.25"
Weight: 0.75 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jun 28, 2008
ISBN 1582434123
EAN 9781582434124
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 | Wide ranging insights into Gary Snyder's lifetime concerns Sep 3, 2000 |
| I bought this book, along with the poetry collection, No Nature, to gain an insight into the work of Gary Snyder, someone I had often seen quoted, but had never read at first hand. Snyder is perhaps best known as a west coast 'nature' poet, a fellow traveller of the 'beat generation', but he is also a prominent Buddhist, bioregional visionary and literary scholar. To judge from this book he is, moreover, an accomplished and eloquent essayist. The essays presented here, articles, reviews, talks and what might loosely be called manifestos, come mainly from the 70s to the 90s and span the breadth of Snyder's interests. Arranged in three sections, Ethics, Aesthetics and Watersheds, Snyder's writing manages to be poetic, religious, political and compelling at all times. Having read this book I feel inspired to read more, I'll try The Practice of the Wild next (more prose), followed by Turtle Island (poetry for which Snyder won the Pulitzer Prize). For anyone concerned to cultivate a humane relationship with the more-than-human world, Snyder is a surefooted guide. | | | Write your own review about A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds
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