This Present Moment: New Poems
By Gary Snyder
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That lives on
To become
Long ago."
For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, from Paris and Tuscany to the shrine at Delphi, from Santa Fe to Sella Pass, Snyder lays out these poems as a map of the last decade. Placed side–by–side, they become a path and a trail of complexity and lyrical regard, a sort of riprap of the poet's eighth decade. And in the mix are some of the most beautiful domestic poems of his great career, poems about his work as a homesteader and householder, as a father and husband, as a friend and neighbor. A centerpiece in this collection is a long poem about the death of his beloved, Carole Koda, a rich poem of grief and sorrow, rare in its steady resolved focus on a dying wife, of a power unequaled in American poetry.
As a friend is quoted in one of these new poems:
"I met the other lately in the far back of a bar,
musicians playing near the window and he
sweetly told me "listen to that music.
The self we hold so dear will soon be gone.""
Gary Snyder is one of the greatest American poets of the last century, and This Present Moment shows his command, his broad range, and his remarkable courage.
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder is a poet, essayist, and environmental activist. He is the author of eighteen books, among them Danger on Peaks; Mountains and Rivers Without End; No Nature, a finalist for the 1993 National Book Award; The Practice of the Wild; Left Out in the Rain, New Poems 19471985; Axe Handles, winner of an American Book Award; and Turtle Island, which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He has been the subject of innumerable essays, five critical books, and countless international interviews. His work and thinking have been featured in video specials on BBC-TV and PBS, including Bill Moyers’s The Language of Life PBS series, and in every major national print outlet. Snyder’s honors include the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Bollingen Prize, the John Hay Award for Nature Writing, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Prize from Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Shelley Memorial Award. He was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He is a professor of English at the University of California, Davis.
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