Turtle Island won Gary Snyder the Pulitzer back in 1975, and remains, to this observer, his most completely realized work. The title comes from a Native American term for the continent of North America, and Snyder wants to reclaim the organic and holistic environmental harmony that once held sway here. Still, this is poetry, not diatribe. Snyder's key virtue isn't his political or philosophical vision, but his poetic articulation of that vision. Excellent.
Turtle Island ANNOTATION
These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time.
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These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time.
FROM THE CRITICS
AudioFile - Emily S. Beeler
In this live recording Gary Snyder reads twelve poems, and the Paul Winter Consort improvises music. It is not an enhancement of Snyder's writing, but an entirely new creation. The performance is the listening and response between Snyder and the Winter Consort, with the live audience reacting to their alternating spoken and musical paragraphs. Both the poetry and music are at times triumphant, eerie, playful and peaceful. The recording lends itself to relistening to absorb detail and meaning. E.S.B. cAudioFile, Portland, Maine
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