Danger on Peaks: Poems

7 best books like Danger on Peaks: Poems (Gary Snyder): Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, The Late Bourgeois World, Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami, Eye Level: Poems, A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind, The Hatred of Poetry

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Author	Silvia Federici
ISBN	1570270597

Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against...

The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke

Author	Rainer Maria Rilke
ISBN	0393001598

Riding, riding, riding, through the dag, through the night, through the day. And the heart has become so tired, and the longing so vast.

In a micro-epic prose poem, Rainer Maria Rilke sings the tale of the young standard-bearer Christoph Rilke (allegedly one of his forebears), travelling...

The Late Bourgeois World

Author	Nadine Gordimer
ISBN	0140056149

Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues. Now Liz has been asked to perform a direct service for the black nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can...

Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami

Author	Gretel Ehrlich
ISBN	0307907317

A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter...

Eye Level: Poems

Author	Jenny Xie
ISBN	1555978029

Jenny Xie’s award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on...

A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind

Author

Shoukei Matsumoto

Cleanliness is next to enlightenment. In this Japanese bestseller a Buddhist monk explains the traditional meditative techniques that will help cleanse not only your house - but your soul.

Live clean. Feel calm. Be happy.

We remove dust to sweep away our worldly cares. We live simply...

The Hatred of Poetry

Author	Ben Lerner
ISBN	0865478201

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that...