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The etiquette of freedom, Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and the practice of the wild, edited by Paul Ebenkamp

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The etiquette of freedom, Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and the practice of the wild, edited by Paul Ebenkamp

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The etiquette of freedom

Oclc number

923796028

Responsibility statement

edited by Paul Ebenkamp

Sub title

Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and the practice of the wild

Summary

"Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives and what has become of them throughout the years. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversations harnessing their ideas of all that is wild, sacred and intimate in this world move 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 Practice of the Wild. 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. The whole offers a rare glimpse of their extended discussion of life and what it means to be wild and alive."--Books.google

Table Of Contents

Part 1: Working landscapes. Trans-species erotics ; Zen and poetry ; Gary Snyder ; Human Studies ; Postscript: current reflections on the Earth. -- Part 2: Transcript of the film -- Part 3: Outtakes. Further talks: Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison ; Outtakes: Shoemaker/Slovic/ Kyger/ McClure. -- Part 4: Poems. "Hay for the horses" ; "Piute creek" ; "Water" ; #14 from myths and texts ; "Song of the taste" ; "They're listening" ; "Virgin" ; "As for poets" ; "Ripples on the surface" ; "Right in the trail" ; "For Lew Welch in a snowfall" ; "A berry feast" ; Afterword: "Grace" from The practice of the wild

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