The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations, 1952-1998 Book

	Foreword	xv
	Author's Note	xxi
	Prose
	from Earth House Hold
	Lookout's Journal	5
	Japan First Time Around	24
	Spring Sesshin at Shokoku-ji	34
	Buddhism and the Possibilities of a Planetary Culture	41
	Passage to More Than India	44
	Poetry and the Primitive	52
	Suwa-no-se Island and the Banyan Ashram	62
	from He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village
	The Myth	71
	Function of the Myth	75
	from The Real Work
	The East West Interview	91
	from Passage Through India
	The Cambodge	129
	Pondicherry	135
	Khajuraho	139
	Dharamshala	141
	Dalai Lama	144
	Letters
	to Philip Whalen (1954-1961)	149
	to Will Petersen (1957-1958)	160
	from The Practice of the Wild
	The Etiquette of Freedom	167
	The Place, the Region, and the Commons	183
	Blue Mountains Constantly Walking	200
	Ancient Forests of the Far West	214
	Grace	235
	from A Place in Space
	Smokey the Bear Sutra	241
	Four Changes, with a Postscript	245
	"Energy Is Eternal Delight"	254
	Unnatural Writing	257
	The Porous World	263
	Coming into the Watershed	267
	Kitkitdizze: A Node in the Net	277
	from The Great Clod Project
	"Wild" in China	287
	Walls Within Walls	296
	The Brush	313
	The Paris Review Interview	319
	Selections from Journals
	Japan, "Of All the Wild Sakura"	341
	Australia	349
	Ladakh	353
	Botswana and Zimbabwe	360
	Uncollected Essays
	Walking the Great Ridge Omine on the Womb-Diamond Trail	371
	Walking Downtown Naha	383
	Is Nature Real?	387
	Entering the Fiftieth Millennium	390
	Poetry
	from Riprap
	Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout	399
	Piute Creek	400
	Milton by Firelight	401
	Above Pate Valley	402
	Hay for the Horses	403
	Riprap	404
	from Myths and Texts
	[from "Logging"]
	"The Morning Star Is Not a Star"	407
	"But Ye Shall Destroy Their Altar"	407
	"Lodgepole Pine: The Wonderful Reproductive"	408
	"Each Dawn Is Clear"	409
	"The Groves Are Down"	410
	"Lodgepole"	410
	[from "Hunting"]
	First Shaman Song	411
	This Poem Is for Bear	412
	This Poem Is for Deer	413
	"Sealion, Salmon, Offshore--"	415
	"Flung from Demonic Wombs"	416
	"How Rare to Be Born a Human Being!"	416
	[from "Burning"]
	Maudgalyayana Saw Hell	417
	John Muir on Mt. Ritter	418
	Amitabha's Vow	419
	"Spikes of New Smell Driven up Nostrils"	419
	"Stone-flake and Salmon"	421
	"'Wash Me on Home, Mama'"	422
	from The Back Country
	A Berry Feast	425
	The Spring	429
	A Walk	430
	Burning the Small Dead	431
	Foxtail Pine	432
	Oil	433
	After Work	434
	Four Poems for Robin	435
	Work to Do Toward Town	437
	The Manichaeans	438
	Artemis	439
	Mother of the Buddhas	440
	Nature Green Shit	441
	Twelve Hours Out of New York	442
	Hop, Skip, and Jump	443
	Through the Smoke Hole	444
	Nanao Knows	446
	from Regarding Wave
	Wave	449
	In the House of the Rising Sun	450
	Song of the Taste	451
	Kyoto Born in Spring Song	452
	Everybody Lying on Their Stomochs, Head Toward the Candle, Reading, Sleeping, Drawing	453
	Shark Meat	454
	The Bed in the Sky	455
	Regarding Wave	456
	Revolution in the Revolution in the Revolution	457
	Sours of the Hills	458
	To Fire	459
	Love	460
	Meeting the Mountains	461
	Long Hair	462
	from Turtle Island
	Without	465
	I Went Into the Maverick Bar	466
	No Matter, Never Mind	467
	The Bath	468
	Control Burn	471
	Prayer for the Great Family	472
	Source	473
	For Nothing	474
	The Egg	475
	Pine Tree Tops	476
	By Frazier Creek Falls	477
	Mother Earth; Her Whales	478
	Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen	480
	"One Should Not Talk to a Skilled Hunter About What Is Forbidden by the Buddha"	481
	Magpie's Song	482
	O Waters	483
	For the Children	484
	As for Poets	485
	from Axe Handles
	Axe Handles	489
	River in the Valley	490
	Changing Diapers	491
	Walking Through Myoshin-ji	492
	Working on the '58 Willys Pickup	493
	For/From Lew	494
	Getting in the Wood	495
	True Night	496
	24:IV:40075, 3:30PM	498
	Dillingham, Alaska, the Willow Tree Bar	499
	Breasts	500
	Old Woman Nature	501
	The Canyon Wren	502
	For All	504
	from Left Out in the Rain
	Poem Left in Sourdough Mountain Lookout	507
	Seeing the Ox	507
	Longitude 170[degree] West, Latitude 35[degree] North	508
	For Example	509
	English Lessons at the Boiler Company	510
	Farewell to Burning Island	510
	No Shoes No Shirt No Service	511
	Poetry Is the Eagle of Experience	512
	Calcium	512
	At White River Roadhouse	513
	The Persimmons	514
	For Berkeley	516
	"There are those who love to get dirty"	516
	Sestina of the End of the Kalpa	517
	How Zen Masters Are Like Mature Herring	518
	from Cold Mountain Poems [Translations]
	"The Path to Han-shan's Place Is Laoghable"	524
	"In a Tangle of Cliffs I Chose a Place--"	524
	"Men Ask the Way to Cold Mountain"	524
	"I Settled at Cold Mountain Long Ago"	524
	"I Have Lived at Cold Mountain"	525
	"In My First Thirty Years of Life"	525
	"There's a Naked Bug at Cold Mouatain"	525
	"Cold Mountain Is a House"	525
	"Some Critic Tried to Put Me Down--"	526
	"When Men See Han-shan"	526
	from Miyazawa Kenji [Translations]
	Spring and the Ashura	530
	Floating World Picture: Spring in the Kitagami Mountains	532
	Cloud Semaphore	533
	The Politicians	534
	Thief	534
	Sixteen T'ang Poems [Translations]	535
	Long Bitter Song [Translations]	545
	from No Nature
	How Poetry Comes to Me	557
	On Climbing the Sierra Matterhorn Again After Thirty-one Years	557
	The Sweat	558
	Building	560
	Off the Trail	562
	Word Basket Woman	563
	Right in the Trail	565
	For Lew Welch in a Snowfall	567
	Ripples on the Surface	568
	from Mountains and Rivers Without End
	Bubbs Creek Haircut	571
	The Blue Sky	576
	The Flowing	580
	Arctic Midnight Twilight	584
	Walking the New York Bedrock	587
	New Moon Tongue	591
	Macaques in the Sky	592
	Raven's Beak River at the End	593
	Cross Legg'd	595
	We Wash Our Bowls in This Water	596
	Earth Verse	598
	Finding the Space in the Heart	599
	New Poems
	Icy Mountains Constantly Walking	605
	Summer of Ninety-Seven	606
	"This present moment"	608
	Chronology	611
	Index	615