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Secular or Eclectic : Beat

Buddhist : Zen / Chan

Contemporary

About Gary Snyder

Timeline (1930 - )

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Original Language
English

Riprap

Themes

Fire

Recommended Books

	Back Country, by Gary Snyder
	Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation, by Carole Tonkinson
	Earth House Hold, by Gary Snyder
	The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry and Translations, 1952 - 1998, by Gary Snyder
	Mountains and Rivers Without End, by Gary Snyder

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Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
          placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
          in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
          riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way.
          straying planets,
These poems, people,
          lost ponies with
Dragging saddles --
          and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
          four-dimensional
Game of Go.
          ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
          a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
          with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
          all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.

-- from Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, by Gary Snyder

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