Here is the handout i created for a breakout session at the inspirational “Becoming Cascadian” retreat hosted by Paul Nelson and Bhakti Watts in the Cedar River Watershed on the shore of Lake Washington this past May 31–June 3. Becoming Cascadian Handout MG V.18 Our time together featured presentations by Andrew Schelling and Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, who took us into an in-depth […]
Continue reading →Kazuaki Tanahashi kindly sent me his latest book from Shambhala Press: a retrospective review of his paintings accompanied by stories that invite the reader to become better acquainted with the good life of this wandering Berkeley-based artivist (activist artist). Kaz’s book contains a chapter about his painting, Bristle Cone Pine, two scrolls that played a key role in our Mountains & Rivers Workshop. The […]
Continue reading →Mark Gonnerman was interviewed by Denis Punegov, the founding editor of the St. Petersburg journal, Svyazi, about teaching beat culture and literature and his experience with this at Hunan University in China. You may download the PDF of this article via the link below: Svyazi Beats Interview Gonnerman Sept 2017 PDF Denis Punegov, “War For Imagination [Interview on the […]
Continue reading →Read Mark Gonnerman’s review of Gary Snyder’s This Present Moment in: Mark Gonnerman, “Both Sides Now: On Gary Snyder’s This Present Moment,” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 30/2 (2017): 88–92. Available via this link.
Continue reading →Alan Williamson calls A Sense of the Whole “an extraordinary book” in his review essay in Western American Literature. See: Alan Williamson, “A Language for Vast Space,” Western American Literature 50/4 (Winter 2015), 375–79. Available via this link: Williamson_Review_ASOTW_WAL 2015
Continue reading →A Sense of the Whole is reviewed alongside Gary Snyder’s This Present Moment by Andrew Schelling in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (Winter 2015). Here’s a link to a PDF scan of the review: ASOTW_Tricycle_Review_Schelling_Winter2015
Continue reading →Click on this link to download a PDF file of this Rain Taxi review: A Sense of the Whole-Rain Taxi Issue 79 Fall 2015 And here’s a link to Rain Taxi, a book review journal out of the Twin Cities: http://www.raintaxi.com/volume-20-number-3-fall-2015-79/
Continue reading →From Nicholas Triolo: Hi there, I hope this message finds you all well. You’re receiving this message because, in some form or another, you’ve either expressed interest in joining or have been instrumental in helping guide the coordination of the 50th anniversary circumambulation of Mount Tamalpais on Sunday, October 25th, 2015 at 8am. […]
Continue reading →In “Proceeding by Clues,” his contribution to A Sense of the Whole, Robert Hass oberserves (p. 153): On the next page [of Snyder’s “The Making of Mountains and Rivers Without End” (M&R 153–158)] he tells us, usefully, that he began the poem on April 8, 1956, and though he doesn’t claim to have finished it […]
Continue reading →On the back cover of A Sense of the Whole you’ll find this quotation from Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995–97: That [Mountains and Rivers Without End] is a meditative exercise in looking is crucial to the long poem as a book of instruction and embodiment of knowledge, for its imagination of […]
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