The other day, Meri Mitsuyoshi caught a Wall Street Journal article introducing Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan. This exhibition 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 in […]
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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/
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Kazuaki Tanahashi kindly sent me his latest book from Shambhala Press: a retrospective review of his paintings accompanied by stories that invite the reader to become better acquainted with the good life of this wandering Berkeley-based artivist (activist artist). Kaz’s book contains a chapter about his painting, Bristle Cone Pine, two scrolls that played a key role in our Mountains & Rivers Workshop. The […]
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
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Today is the Dalai Lama’s 80th rebirthday. When I hosted His Holiness at the Aurora Forum at Stanford on November 3–4, 2005, I presented him with a copy of Mountains and Rivers Without End. I reminded him that the poet, Gary Snyder, and his traveling companions, Joanne Kyger, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky visited him at his headquarters in Dharamshala on March 31, […]
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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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