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Regarding Wave

By Snyder , Gary

Book information

Publisher
New Directions
Year
1970
ISBN
9780811222822, 9780811201964, 0811201961, 0811222829
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
376 kB (384680 bytes)
Pages
84 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
American poetry--20th century;American poetry;Amer

Description

"Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human affairs"--The beautiful, precarious balance among forces and species forms a unifying theme for the new poems in this collection. The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.'" Central to the work is a cycle of songs for Snyder's wife, Masa, and their first son, Kai. Probing even further than Snyder's previous collection of poems, The Back Country, this new volume freshly explores "the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe ..."

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