The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild

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Contents; Foreword; Introduction; PART ONE -- Working Landscapes; Trans-Species Erotics; Zen and Poetry; Gary Snyder; Human Studies; Postscript:Current Reflections on the Earth; PART TWO -- Transcript of the Film; PART THREE -- Outtakes; Further Talks:Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison; Outtakes:Shoemaker/Slovic/Kyger/McClure; PART FOUR -- Poems; Hay for the Horses; Piute Creek; Water; # 14 from Myths and Texts; Song of the Taste; They're Listening; Virgin; As for Poets; Ripples on the Surface; Right in the Trail; For Lew Welch in a Snowfall; A Berry Feast; Afterword; Biographies and Reading Lists.;Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives and what has become of them throughout the years. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversations--harnessing their ideas of all that is wild, sacred and intimate in this world--move from the admission that Snyder's mother was a devout atheist to his personal accounts of his initiation into Zen Buddhist culture, being literally dangled by the ankles over a cliff. After years of living in Japan, Snyder returns to the States to build a farmhouse in the remote foothills of the.