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daximus's review against another edition
5.0
"The archaic, esoteric, and the primitive traditions alike all teach that beyond transcendence is Great Play, and Transformation. After the mind-breaking Void, the emptiness of a million universes appearing and disappearing, all created things rushing into Krishna's devouring mouth; beyond the enlightenment that can say "these beings are dead already; go ahead and kill them, Arjuna" is a loving, simple awareness of the absolute beauty and preciousness of mice and weeds."
This selection, taken from Snyder's essay entitled "Poetry and the Primitive" sums up both the collection and my thoughts on it all in one, better than I would have been able to otherwise. Snyder occupies a territory that few can do successfully, mixing prodigious talent, great creativity, and an endless breadth of diction in mastering both the finer arts of poetry and essaying. Dedicated to the boundless beauty of the natural world, he follows in the great footsteps of Robinson Jeffers, and performs equally as admirably. His poetry is as if the voice of St. Francis of Assisi, or, farther back, any number of Pagan Priests and Divining Druids-screaming to the snow-capped mountains and the low-throated valleys, and all who live in them, merely to say that God is in them as good as anywhere, or anything else.
This selection, taken from Snyder's essay entitled "Poetry and the Primitive" sums up both the collection and my thoughts on it all in one, better than I would have been able to otherwise. Snyder occupies a territory that few can do successfully, mixing prodigious talent, great creativity, and an endless breadth of diction in mastering both the finer arts of poetry and essaying. Dedicated to the boundless beauty of the natural world, he follows in the great footsteps of Robinson Jeffers, and performs equally as admirably. His poetry is as if the voice of St. Francis of Assisi, or, farther back, any number of Pagan Priests and Divining Druids-screaming to the snow-capped mountains and the low-throated valleys, and all who live in them, merely to say that God is in them as good as anywhere, or anything else.
stevenf's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.75
Core reading. Snyder is 'Japhy' in , the must read:The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac.
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