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 →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 →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 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 →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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