Turtle Island / Gary Snyder

By: Snyder, Gary, 1930-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: A New Directions bookPublication details: New York : A New Directions Book, c1974. Description: 114 p. : 21 cmISBN: 0811205452; 0811205460 (pbk.); 9780811205467; 9780811205450Subject(s): American poetry | English LiteratureDDC classification: 808.81 LOC classification: PS3569.N88 | T8Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

Manzanita: Anasazi -- Way west, underground -- Without -- Dead by the side of the road -- I went into the Maverick Bar -- Steak -- No matter, never mind -- Bath -- Coyote Valley spring -- Spell against demons -- Front lines -- Control burn -- Great mother -- Call of the wild -- Prayer for the great family -- Source -- Manzanita -- Charms -- Facts -- Real work -- Pine tree tops -- For nothing -- Night herons -- Egg -- Uses of light -- On San Gabriel Ridges -- Frazier Creek Falls -- Black Mesa Mine #1 -- Up branches of Duck River -- It pleases -- Hemp -- Wild mushroom -- Mother Earth: Her whales -- Affluence -- Ethnobotany -- Straight Creek-Great Burn -- Hudsonian Curlew -- Two fawns that didn't see the light this spring -- Two immortals -- Rain in Alleghany -- Avocado -- What steps -- Shy log truck drivers rise earlier than students of Zen -- Bedrock -- Dazzle -- "One should not talk to a skilled hunter about what is forbidden by the Buddha" -- LMFBR -- Walking home from "Duchess of Malfi" -- Magpie's Song -- For the children: -- O waters -- Gen -- Dusty braces -- Jemez Pueblo Ring -- Tomorrow's song -- What happened here before -- Toward climax -- For the children -- As for poets -- Plain talk: Four changes -- "Energy is eternal delight" -- Wilderness -- What's meant by "Here" -- On "As for Poets."

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Fiction	808.81 GAT 1974 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		6013

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Poems.

Manzanita: Anasazi --
Way west, underground --
Without --
Dead by the side of the road --
I went into the Maverick Bar --
Steak --
No matter, never mind --
Bath --
Coyote Valley spring --
Spell against demons --
Front lines --
Control burn --
Great mother --
Call of the wild --
Prayer for the great family --
Source --
Manzanita --
Charms --
Facts --
Real work --
Pine tree tops --
For nothing --
Night herons --
Egg --
Uses of light --
On San Gabriel Ridges --
Frazier Creek Falls --
Black Mesa Mine #1 --
Up branches of Duck River --
It pleases --
Hemp --
Wild mushroom --
Mother Earth: Her whales --
Affluence --
Ethnobotany --
Straight Creek-Great Burn --
Hudsonian Curlew --
Two fawns that didn't see the light this spring --
Two immortals --
Rain in Alleghany --
Avocado --
What steps --
Shy log truck drivers rise earlier than students of Zen --
Bedrock --
Dazzle --
"One should not talk to a skilled hunter about what is forbidden by the Buddha" --
LMFBR --
Walking home from "Duchess of Malfi" --
Magpie's Song --
For the children: --
O waters --
Gen --
Dusty braces --
Jemez Pueblo Ring --
Tomorrow's song --
What happened here before --
Toward climax --
For the children --
As for poets --
Plain talk: Four changes --
"Energy is eternal delight" --
Wilderness --
What's meant by "Here" --
On "As for Poets."

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

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