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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“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 →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 →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 (see link below): https://www.paulenelson.com/2018/07/27/notes-on-a-sense-of-the-whole-reading-mark-gonnerman-reading-gary-snyder/
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
Continue reading →A Sense of the Whole Reviewed by Andrew Schelling in Tricycle (Winter 2015)
A Sense of the Whole is reviewed alongside Gary Snyder’s This Present Moment by Andrew Schelling in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (Winter 2015).
Continue reading →A Sense of the Whole reviewed by Justin Wadland in Rain Taxi 20/3 (Fall 2015)
Justin Wadland reviews A Sense of the Whole in Rain Taxi 20/3 (2015): 8–9. “Tucked in an appendix at the end of volume, another essay by Gonnerman titled “Fieldwork: Gary Snyder, Libraries, and Book Learning” offers a fascinating survey of the important place textual study has had in the poet’s life: ‘Contrary to what may […]
Continue reading →Welcome!
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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