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Beneath Cherry Blossoms - The Lilliput Review Blog

Friday, 27 July 2007

Gary Snyder ...


I've always felt attracted to the work of Gary Snyder, particularly his subject matter and philosophy, but I've never really connected with him in a big way.  While reading some of the nature work of Mary Oliver, I found in a pile of poetry books a small chapbook of Snyder's work, entitled Songs for Gaia.   This set of poems was later reprinted in Axe Handles, under the slightly different title of "Little Songs for Gaia."  Once again, I didn't quite connect with the work, except this opening poem of the sequence:

 

across salt marshes north of

San Francisco Bay

cloud soft grays

blues little fuzzies

illusion structures¾pale blue of the edge,

sky behind,

 

hawk dipping and circling

over salt marsh

 

ah, this slow paced

system of systems, whirling and turning

a five thousand-year span

about all that a human can figure,

 

grasshopper man in his car driving through

Gary Snyder

 

From the Lilliput archive, #107, two short poems:

 

December Dawn

   The sun comes up,

   reining a bleak wind,

 

   Love is never enough.

 

   Love is all there is.

Jeanne Shannon

 

 

Any day

any moment

now.

Cid Corman

 



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Updated: Tuesday, 31 July 2007 09:28 EDT

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