Reviews for No Nature: New and Selected Poems

The average rating for No Nature: New and Selected Poems based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-06-08 00:00:00 Cathy Gerlitz Snyder is great, and this represents him quite well. However, I think his body of work will remain just a hair's breadth away from full illumination until a devoted editor annotates many of his very particular regional, botanical, anthropological and non-English references. It's somewhat astounding how prescient and keyed-in his concerns were back in the late fifties: ecology, cross-culturalization, holism, Buddhism, etc. While his poetics are entirely apt and owned, it may exert an unfortunate influence not unlike Kerouac's on prose (albeit on a much smaller scale): novice writers fail to acknowledge the adequate formal preparation made by both Keroauc and Snyder and imitate these highly achieved and deeply considered stylistic positions. Without this preparation, such disregard of convention lacks substance and impact; that we can tell whether or not the preparation has been made is a fascinating distinction.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-12-11 00:00:00 Keith Mcintyre He's like a mountain man survivalist... lots of geology, wildlife and outdoorsy chores. My favorites are the intimate sauna poems where he describes his naked family in great detail, which sounds creepy but is actually touching.