Danger on Peaks [With 2 CDs]
When first published in 2004, Danger on Peaks was the poet's first new collection of poems in twenty years. Perhaps his most personal, autobiographical collection, it begins with the young poet ascending Mt. St. Helens in 1945, a climb accidentally timed with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was 15 years old. Almost sixty years later, after the great Buddhas at Bamiyan Valley were bombed and with the victims of the World Trade Center also turned to dust, the poet composed a prayer while at Short Grass Temple in Senso-ji, a pilgrim on the path of Kannon, Goddess of Mercy.This remarkable collection was greeted with broad praise, and as…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61902-451-9
- EAN: 9781619024519
- Produktnummer: 29583349
- Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 119 S.
- Masse: H26.1 cm x B18.7 cm x D2.2 cm 575 g
- Auflage: Deluxe Audio
- Abbildungen: CD (AUDIO)
- Gewicht: 575
Über den Autor
Gary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award. His 1992 collection, No Nature, was a National Book Award finalist, and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, educator and Zen Buddhist.
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