Turtle Island
Turtle Island
paperback
Published:
17 January, 1974
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Description
Prizes
Winner of Pulitzer Prize Poetry Category 1975
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780811205467 |
| ISBN10 | 0811205460 |
| Number Of Pages | 112 |
| Item Weight | 170 g |
| Product Dimensions | 132 x 206 x 13 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
"Snyder is on the side of the gods. " -- Herbert Leibowitz - The New York Times
"An accomplished technician who has learned from the poetry of several languages and who has developed a sure and flexible style capable of handling any material he wishes." -- Kenneth Rexroth
"Gary Snyder is a rarity in the United States: an immensely popular poet whose work is taken seriously by other poets. " -- Eliot Weinberger
Author's Bio
Born in 1930 in San Francisco, Gary Snyder grew up in the rural Pacific Northwest. He graduated from Reed College in 1951 with degrees in anthropology and literature, and later, 1953–56, studied Japanese and Chinese civilization at Berkeley, returning there to teach in the English Department. After participating in the San Francisco revival, the beginning of the beat poetry movement, with Ginsberg, Whalen, Rexroth and McClure, Snyder quietly went off to Japan in 1955 where he stayed for eighteen months, living in a Zen monastery. In 1958, he joined the tanker "Sappa Creek" and traveled around the world. In early 1959 he again returned to Japan where, apart from six months in India, he studied Kyoto under Oda Sesso Roshi, the Zen master and Head Abbot of Daitoku-Ji. He has spent further time (1966–67) in Japan on a Bollingen research grant. In 1969 he received a Guggenheim grant and toured the Southwestern United States visiting various Indian tribes.