4’33” BC (Before Cage)
Poem by Wang Yangli and Shinto Silent Concerts Before Cage CLICK IMAGE FOR LEGIBLE PDF
Continue reading →Happy reBirthday, Gary Snyder!
Happy Ninetieth Birthday, Gary! Link here to the video: Gary Snyder 90 Birthday Reading from “Little Songs for Gaia“
Continue reading →Botanist Tim Hogan Reviews Eileen Crist’s Abundant Earth and Writes on “The Green World”
Tim Hogan, Zen Mountain Man and Collections Manager of Botany at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Museum of Natural History, just shared his review of Eileen Crist’s Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization (University of Chicago Press, 2019). After quoting Paul Shephard saying that “the ‘civilized mind’ attempts to simplify and level the world, whereas the […]
Continue reading →Smokey the Bear Sutra (1969) and Smokey’s Rebirthday (2019)
This morning Meri reminded me that today is the 75th rebirthday of Smokey the Bear, so together we read out loud, antiphonally, the Smokey the Bear Sutra under the Sunflowers of Vairocana and over breakfast. Of this Smokey the Bear Sutra, Katherine McNeil has this in her bibliography (Entry A 20): Single leaf broadside.…Printed in black on light […]
Continue reading →“Fieldwork: Gary Snyder, Libraries, and Book Learning” in A Sense of the Whole
Available here is a PDF of Appendix 3: Mark Gonnerman, “Fieldwork: Gary Snyder, Libraries, and Book Learning,” in A Sense of the Whole: Reading Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End, ed. Mark Gonnerman (Berkeley: Counterpoint Press, 2015), 291–315. Gonnerman_Gary Snyder and Book Learning_A Sense of the Whole 2015
Continue reading →Saburo Hasegawa and Isamu Noguchi Exhibition (Yokohama! Queens! San Francisco!) and Books
The other day, Meri Mitsuyoshi caught a Wall Street Journal article introducing Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan, the exhibition that opened at Japan’s Yokohama Museum of Art (January 12–March 24), is currently at the Noguchi Museum in Queens (May 1–July 14, 2019), and will be at the Asian Art Museum […]
Continue reading →Three Interviews with Richard Powers (links and printable PDFs)
Here I’ll attach two recent interviews with Richard Powers, author of The Overstory (2018) in a PDF format that makes them easy to print out and read with pen in hand, which always enlivens the reading experience for me: 1] Everett. Hamner, “Here’s to Unsuicide: An Interview with Richard Powers,” Los Angeles Review of Books (7 April […]
Continue reading →Back from Kitkitdizze with Qionglin Tan and Yingying Deng from Hunan University
Professor Qionglin “Joan” Tan, Yingying “Hannah” Deng, and I visited Gary Snyder at Kitkitdizze on 8 February 2019. There we caught up on news from the Center for Gary Snyder Studies Joan founded at Hunan University in 2015. Joan, Gary, Hannah (8Feb19) Professor Tan’s advisee, Ms. Deng, a Changsha native, is enjoying a dissertation research year at UC Berkeley. Gary […]
Continue reading →Paul Nelson of Cascadia in Dialogue with A Sense of the Whole
Thanks to Paul Nelson for reading and thinking with A Sense of the Whole, as noted here: https://www.paulenelson.com/2018/07/27/notes-on-a-sense-of-the-whole-reading-mark-gonnerman-reading-gary-snyder/
Continue reading →Place-Based Learning in San Francisco
As i begin to make my contribution as Founding Humanities Teacher at the Academy of Thought and Industry (ATI) in San Francisco, i am excited by the prospect of turning San Francisco into a fieldwork site for young urban students of the human sciences. I will be leading a discussion about this on Sunday, July 1 from 10:00–12:00 noon: Here’s where […]
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