Happy reBirthday, Gary Snyder!
Happy Ninetieth Birthday, Gary! Link here to the video: Gary Snyder 90 Birthday Reading from “Little Songs for Gaia“
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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 →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 →Living in Place with Peter Berg and Gary Snyder in Mind: Becoming Cascadian Retreat Handout
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 →Mark Gonnerman Interviewed by Denis Pugenov on Teaching the Beats at Hunan University in China (Published in English and Russian, September 2017)
Mark Gonnerman was interviewed by Denis Punegov, the founding editor of the St. Petersburg zine, 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 →Mark Gonnerman Reviews This Present Moment in ANQ (March 2017)
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 Reviews A Sense of the Whole (Winter 2015)
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
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