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GARY SNYDER AND THE PACIFIC RIM
CREATING COUNTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY |
| By: |
Timothy Gray, Alan Golding, Lynn Keller |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£33.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0877459762 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780877459767 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2006 |
| Series: |
Contemporary North American Poetry |
| Pages: |
356 |
| Description: |
Draws upon several journals and letters, as well as the author's own close readings of Gary Snyder's well-crafted poetry and prose, to track the early career of a maverick intellectual whose writings powered the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. This book is suitable for literary and Asian studies scholars. |
| Synopsis: |
In "Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim", Timothy Gray draws upon previously unpublished journals and letters, as well as his own close readings of Gary Snyder's well-crafted poetry and prose to track the early career of a maverick intellectual whose writings powered the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. Exploring various aspects of cultural geography, Gray asserts that this west coast literary community seized upon the idea of a Pacific Rim regional structure, in part to recognize their Orientalist desires and in part to consolidate their opposition to America's cold war ideology, which tended to divide East from West. The geographical consciousness of Snyder's writing was particularly influential, Gray argues, because it gave San Francisco's Beat and hippie cultures a set of physical coordinates by which they could chart their utopian visions of peace and love. Gray's introduction tracks the increased use of "Pacific Rim discourse" by politicians and business leaders following World War II.Ensuing chapters analyze Snyder's countercultural invocation of this regional idea, concentrating on the poet's migratory or "creaturely" sensibility, his gift for literary translation, his physical embodiment of trans-Pacific ideals, his role as tribal spokesperson for Haight-Ashbury hippies, and his burgeoning interest in environmental issues. Throughout, Gray's citations of such writers as Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, and Joanne Kyger shed light on Snyder's communal role, providing an amazingly intimate portrait of the west coast counterculture. An interdisciplinary project that utilizes models of ecology, sociology, and comparative religion to supplement traditional methods of literary biography, "Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim" offers a unique perspective on Snyder's life and work. This book will fascinate literary and Asian studies scholars, as well as the general reader interested in the Beat movement and multicultural influences on poetry. |
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US |
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University of Iowa Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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