Nobody Home - by Gary Snyder & Julia Martin (Paperback)

Name: Nobody Home - by Gary Snyder & Julia Martin (Paperback)
Brand: Trinity University Press
SKU: 1005135576
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A collection of interviews and letters between beloved poet Gary Snyder and South African writer and scholar Julia Martin
About the Author: Gary Snyder is a poet, essayist, and environmental activist.
280 Pages
Literary Collections, letters

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About the Book

A collection of interviews and letters between beloved poet Gary Snyder and South African writer and scholar Julia Martin

Book Synopsis

A collection of interviews and letters between beloved poet Gary Snyder and South African writer and scholar Julia Martin

Review Quotes

"Gives wise advice about writing and life....His joy in ideas is contagious."--Publishers Weekly

"This engrossing collection grants us a new perspective on Snyder and his work and compellingly human insights into Buddhism, writing, and place."--Booklist

"Julia Martin has done a fine job of bringing Gary Snyder to the fore in her committed study of one of our major contemporary authors."--New York Journal of Books

"Humorous and touching interviews and letters."--Sacramento Bee

"Remarkable new collection....A highly engaging and poignant account of the evolution of Snyder's and Martin's views of our fragile world."--San Antonio Express-News

About the Author

Gary Snyder is a poet, essayist, and environmental activist. He is the author of eighteen books, among them Danger on Peaks, Mountains and Rivers Without End, No Nature, a finalist for the 1993 National Book Award, The Practice of the Wild, Left Out in the Rain, New Poems 1947-1985, Axe Handles, winner of an American Book Award, and Turtle Island, which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

He has been the subject of innumerable essays, five critical books, and countless international interviews. His work and thinking have been featured in video specials on BBC-TV and PBS, including Bill Moyers's The Language of Life PBS series, and in every major national print outlet.

Snyder's honors include the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Bollingen Prize, the John Hay Award for Nature Writing, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Prize from Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Shelley Memorial Award. He was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Davis.

Dimensions (Overall): 6.9 Inches (H) x 4.9 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)

Weight: .6 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 280

Genre: Literary Collections

Sub-Genre: Letters

Publisher: Trinity University Press

Format: Paperback

Author: Gary Snyder & Julia Martin

Language: English

Street Date: November 11, 2014

TCIN: 1005135576

UPC: 9781595342515

Item Number (DPCI): 247-24-2859

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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