Name: Axe Handles: Poems
SKU: 1719070
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Author: Snyder, Gary
ISBN: 9781593760571

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gary Snyder

Publisher

Counterpoint LLC

Language

English

Pages

126

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8x13.7x1 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN

1593760574

ISBN13

9781593760571

Synopsis "Axe Handles: Poems"

In Axe Handles Mr. Snyder reveals the roots of community in the family and explores the transmission of cultural values and knowledge. "In making the handle of an axe by cutting wood with an axe the model is indeed near at hand." In exploring this axiom of Lu Ji's, Gary Snyder continues: I am an axe And my son a handle, soon To be shaping again, model And tool, craft of culture, How we go on. This is a collection of discovery, of insight, and of vision. These poems see the roots of community in the family, and the roots of culture and government in the community. Formally, the 71 poems in Axe Handles range from lyrics to riddles to narratives. The collection is divided into three parts, called "Loops," "Little Songs for Gaia," and "Nets," each containing poems of disciplined clarity. Gary Snyder knows well the great power of silence in a poem, silence that allows the mind space enough to discover the magic of song.

Gary Snyder

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Gary Sherman Snyder (San Francisco, May 8, 1930) is a poet, translator, essayist, lecturer, and American environmental activist belonging to the Beat Generation movement and the San Francisco Renaissance. He is considered one of the founders and forerunners of the 1960s countercultural movement. Among other awards, he has received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He has published more than 25 books between 1959 and 2007 (poetry, essays, travel books) and has been translated into more than 20 languages.

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