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. And see the PDF available via this link.
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 […]
Continue reading →The cover of A Sense of the Whole shows portions of Bristle Cone Pine, two matching 5′ x 12′ scroll paintings by Kazuaki Tanahashi commissioned by the Mountains & Rivers Workshop for Gary Snyder’s October 9, 1997, reading of Mountains and Rivers Without End in Kresge Auditorium at Stanford University. One scroll shows the bristlecone pine […]
Continue reading →Welcome to futureprimitives.info: high quality information for Gary Snyder readers. Here I will post on matters I presume are of interest to people interested in the life and work of Gary Snyder, a pioneering Pacific Rim poet and philosopher of the Wild. I’m especially interested in topics and conversations that emerge from my new book, A Sense of […]
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