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An edition of Danger on Peaks: Poems (2004)

Danger on peaks

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"When Gary Snyder applied for the position of fire lookout for the U.S. Forest Service in Washington state in 1952 he wrote in his letter, "So I would like your highest, most remote, and most difficult-of-access lookout." He got the job and was sent to Crater Mountain Lookout, the most remote outpost in Washington. But this wasn't his first encounter with dangerous peaks." "This book, Snyder's first collection of new poems in twenty years, begins with poems about an earlier climb - Snyder's first ascent of Mount St. Helens in 1945. He learned of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the morning of his descent, from newspapers delivered to forestry offices on the slopes of the mountain. Climbing, mountain and backwoods encounters begun in those early years of his life set the tone and provided much of the substance for what has followed in the remarkable life of one of America's most revered poets." "Danger on Peaks contains work in a surprising variety of styles, creating an arc-shaped trail from those earliest climbs to what the poet calls poems "of intimate immediate life, gossip and insight" (some of the poet's most personal work ever). Included are poems that work with the magical lyrics of Old Man Coyote and poems in an American / Japanese hybrid, a form of haibun, "haiku plus prose," which will remind readers as much of William Carlos Williams as Basho. The book ends with poems for the Buddhas of Bamiyan Valley, which were blown up by the Taliban, and the World Trade Towers."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
112

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Danger on Peaks: Poems
September 9, 2005, Shoemaker & Hoard
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Danger on peaks: poems
2004, Shoemaker & Hoard, Distributed by Publishers Group West
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Table of Contents

The mountain and the lake
The climb
Atomic dawn
Some fate
Letting go
Blast zone
To Ghost Lake
Pearly everlasting
Enjoy the day
Brief years
Glacier ghosts
What to tell, still
Strong spirit
Sharing an oyster with the captain
Summer of '97
Really the real
Ankle-deep in ashes
Winter almond
Mariano Vallejo's library
Waiting for a ride
Steady, they say
Doctor Coyote when he had a problem
Claws/cause
How many?
Loads on the road
Carwash time
To all the girls whose ears I pierced back then
She knew all about art
Coffee, market, blossoms
In the Santa Clarita valley
Almost okay now
Sus
Day's driving done
Snow flies, burn brush, shut down
Icy mountains constantly walking
For philip zenshin whalen
For carole
Steady, they say
Gray squirrels
Day in late summer
Spilling the wind
California laurel
Baking bread
Empty bus
No shadow
Shandel
Night herons
The Acropolis back when
The emu
The Hie Shrine and the "One-Tree" district
Cormorants
To go
Thousand cranes
For Anthea Corinne Snyder Lowry
The great bell of the Gion
After bamiyan
Loose on earth
Falling from a height, holding hands
Senso-ji
Envoy.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Washington, DC, [Berkeley, Calif.?]

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.54
Library of Congress
PS3569.N88 D36 2004, PS3569.N88D36 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
112 p. :
Number of pages
112

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3292906M
Internet Archive
dangeronpeakspoe00snyd
ISBN 10
1593760418
LCCN
2004011649
OCLC/WorldCat
55228672
Goodreads
888617

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