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Snyder, Gary, 1930-

Mountains and rivers without end / Gary Snyder.

Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint ; [Emeryville, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, ©1996.

viii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Mountains and Rivers is an epic of geology, prehistory, and planetary mythologies. It is a poem about land and its processes, a book about wisdom, compassion, and myth, and a narrative work that is not quite like anything else.

Environmentalism -- United States -- Poetry.

Fiction.

Poetry.

Ecopoetry.

Completed work appears for the 1st time in this volume.

Illustrations on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163).

Endless streams and mountains -- Old bones -- Night highway -- Three worlds, three realms, six road -- Jackrabbit -- Elwha River -- Bubbs creek haircut -- Boat of a million years -- Blue sky -- Market -- Journeys -- Ma -- Instructions -- Night song of the Los Angeles basin -- Covers the ground -- The flowing -- The black-tailed hare -- With this flesh -- The hump-backed flute player -- The cumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais -- The Canyon Wren -- Arctic midnight twilight -- Under the hills near the Morava River -- Walking the New York bedrock -- Haida Gwai north coast, Naikoon beach -- New moon tongue -- Offering for Tara -- The bear mother -- Macaques in the sky -- Old Woodrat's stinky house -- Raven's Beak River -- Earrings dangling and miles of desert -- Cross legg'd -- Afloat -- Dance -- We wash our bowls in this water -- The Mountain Spirit -- Earth verse -- Finding the space in the heart.

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