The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (504 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00A172GEA |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon customer said Repetitive, but very interesting.. I really enjoyed reading Part One of this book. The conversational exchanges between Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison were wonderful. Many times I stopped and re-read portions over and over again - sometimes Repetitive, but very interesting. Amazon customer I really enjoyed reading Part One of this book. The conversational exchanges between Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison were wonderful. Many times I stopped and re-read portions over and over again - sometimes 4 or 5 times. I wish that the entire book had been one long conversation between the men. However, after Part One, the rest of the book is somewhat repetitive. Parts Two and Three consist of the transcript/outtakes of the included DVD - much of which had already been covered in Part One.My suggestion is this: Watch the DVD first. The scenery is beyond beautiful, and hearing these men speak,. or 5 times. I wish that the entire book had been one long conversation between the men. However, after Part One, the rest of the book is somewhat repetitive. Parts Two and Three consist of the transcript/outtakes of the included DVD - much of which had already been covered in Part One.My suggestion is this: Watch the DVD first. The scenery is beyond beautiful, and hearing these men speak,. James W. Ramsay said Video not included. From the description, I was hoping for a copy of the DVD to be included. This book is just the transcript of the video. Ended up renting the video from Amazon Video.. Richard J. Barron said I enjoyed hearing Gary Snyder read on the DVD that came. I enjoyed hearing Gary Snyder read on the DVD that came with this book and also learning what various individuals had to say about his work.
His several books of poems include most recently Saving Daylight and In Search of Small Gods. He lives and works in Berkeley, California.. He divides his time between Michigan and Arizona.Paul Ebenkamp previously edited the Counterpoint title Song of Myself, a collection of poems from Walt Whitman. Since 1970 he has lived with his family in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Northern California.Jim Harrison was born in Michigan in 1937. About the AuthorPulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder is the author of sixteen books of poetry and prose. A member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters, he has published more than thirty books including Returning to Earth, The English Majo
The whole offers a rare glimpse of their extended discussion of life and what it means to be wild and alive.. A DVD is included which contains the film together with more than an hour of out-takes and expanded interviews, as well as an extended reading by Gary Snyder. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversationsharnessing their ideas of all that is wild, sacred and intimate in this worldmove 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 Sierras, a homestead he calls Kitkitdizze.For all of the depth in these conversations, Jim Harrison and Gary Snyder are humorous and friendly, and with the artfully interspersed dialogue from old friends and loves like Scott Slovic, Michael McClure, Jack Shoemaker, and Joanne Kyger, the discussion reaches a level of not only the personal, but the global, redefining our idea of the Beat Generation and challenging the future directions of the environmental movement and its association with Deep Ecology.”The Etiquette of Freedom is an all-encompassing companion to the film The Practi
He divides his time between Michigan and Arizona.Paul Ebenkamp previously edited the Counterpoint title Song of Myself, a collection of poems from Walt Whitman. A member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters, he has published more than thirty books including Returning to Earth, The English Major, and Legends of the Fall. His several books of poems include most recently Saving Daylight and In Searc