Description: "Library of America completes its definitive edition of the writings of our "poet laureate of Deep Ecology" with this career-spanning collection of Gary Snyder's essential prose, prepared by his longtime editor in consultation with the author. Including hard-to-find interviews, previously uncollected essays, and generous selections from such land-mark works as Earth House Hold, The Practice of the Wild, A Place in Space, Back on the Fire, and The Great Clod, here are writings on his solitary life as a fire lookout in the mountains of Washington State and his years as a Buddhist initiate; on East Asian literatures and cultures over millenia; on Native American mythology; on wildness and wilderness, seeking wisdom, and living in community; on the ongoing global environmental crisis; and much more." -- Provided by publisher.
