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No Nature: New and Selected Poems

10 best books like No Nature: New and Selected Poems (Gary Snyder): The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, Collected Poems, The Complete Poems, Transbluesency: Selected Poems, 1961-1995, The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems, گلشن راز, Even in Quiet Places, The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990, Master Dogen's Shobogenzo

The Selected Poems of Tu Fu
AuthorDu Fu
ISBN0811211002
Tu Fu radically altered poetry as he found it in the High T’ang period. In addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include all aspects of public and private experience, thus becoming in the words of translator David Hinton,...
Collected Poems
AuthorJames Merrill
The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication and virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened and his voice took on...
The Complete Poems
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0374513058
Poet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a diverse literary talent with a distinctive voice, by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. His poetry, whether dealing with art, war, memories of childhood, or the loneliness of everyday life, is powerful and moving. A poet...
Transbluesency: Selected Poems, 1961-1995
AuthorAmiri Baraka
ISBN1568860145
Finally in print in a single volume, a selection from Baraka's mostly out-of-print collections of poetry, from 1961 to the present. Starting with Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note and concluding with recent limited-edition chapbooks and broadsides, this selection traces the more than thirty...
The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
AuthorHanshan
ISBN1556591403
A Zen-Taoist poetry classic, in a handsome Chinese-English format

This definitive translation of Han Shan’s poetry appears in a bilingual Chinese-English format. Included are extensive notes, a preface by renowned translator Red Pine, a findings list, and photographs of the cave and...
Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN1888375167
Here is the impermanent
and yet continuously flowing world.

And, complicated. . . don't forget complicated world.

These poems, written by Thich Nhat Hanh, are divided up into two sections in this collection: Historical Dimension (written primarily during the '60s, during...
گلشن راز
AuthorMahmud Shabistari
کتاب گلشن راز اثر مشهور سعدالدّین محمودبن امین‌الدّین عبدالکریم‌بن یحیی شبستری، معروف به شیخ محمود شبستری، کتابی است عرفانی که در سال 717 هجری قمری به نظم...
Even in Quiet Places
AuthorWilliam Stafford
ISBN1881090167
This book brings together four privately printed chapbooks and offers them to the general public in one volume. All the poems are in William Stafford's familiar, reflective voice, and some had been freshly typed at the time of Stafford's death in August of 1993. The book is hospitable to a full range...
The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990
AuthorCharles Wright
ISBN0374523266
The heart of this volume is made up of long journal-like dated entries in free verse. Deliciously absorbing and meditative, they concern themselves with landscapes and the natural world, with ideas, memory, and autobiography. I think of poetry as a kind of wisdom. I get the idea Wright dedicates his...
Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
AuthorGudo Wafu Nishijima
ISBN1419638203
This translation, supported by the Japan Foundation, makes a strong claim to be the definitive translation of the 95 chapter edition of Shobogenzo, the essential Japanese Buddhist text, written in the 13th century by Zen Master Dogen. The translation adheres closely to the original Japanese, with...
The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems
AuthorFaiz Ahmad Faiz
ISBN0870239759
The Rebel's Silhouette is a collection of poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of the most famous Urdu poets, translated by Agha Shahid Ali, many of them written while Mr. Faiz was in prison.

The word "Beloved" is often used in poetry and ghazals to refer to either a lover or to God. What the brilliant Mr....
Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet
AuthorCarol Schaefer
ISBN1590302931


We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth’s peoples, and...
Selected Poems
AuthorConrad Aiken
ISBN0195165470
Poet, short story writer, critic and novelist, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) has been called the most metaphysical, the most learned, and the most modern of poets. With writing that reflects an intense interest in psychological, philosophical, and scientific issues, Aiken remains a unique influence...
Selected Poems
AuthorRabindranath Tagore
ISBN0140449884
The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and the world, the eternal and transient,...
Braided Creek
AuthorJim Harrison
ISBN1556591888
After Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser had exchanged letters and poems for years, Kooser was diagnosed with cancer. "Ted's poetry became overwhelmingly vivid," Harrison recalls. "Then we decided to correspond in short poems, because that was the essence of what we wanted to say to each other."

"Braided...
The Continuous Life
AuthorMark Strand
ISBN0679738444
Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with "the weather of leavetaking", but they are also unexpectedly funny....
Garden Time
AuthorW.S. Merwin
ISBN1556594992
"There are few great poets alive at any one time, and W.S. Merwin is one of them. Read him." —The Guardian

"There are few great poets alive at any one time, and W.S. Merwin is one of them. Read him." —The Guardian

"Merwin has attained a transcendent and transformative elevation of...
Poets on the Peaks
AuthorJohn Suiter
ISBN1582431485
Based on scores of previously unpublished letters and journals, plus recent interviews with Snyder and Whalen and several others, Poets on the Peaks creates a group portrait of Kerouac, Snyder, and Whalen that transcends the tired urban cliches of the "Beat" life. Poets on the Peaks is about the development...
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
AuthorLester R. Brown
ISBN0393330877
In this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends of disruption and decline, including rising temperatures and spreading water shortage. In addition to these looming...
TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (New Autonomy)
AuthorHakim Bey
ISBN1570271518
The underground cult bestseller! Essays that redefine the psychogeographical nooks of autonomy. Recipes for poetic terror, anarcho -black magic, post-situ psychotropic surgery, denunciations of spiritual addictions to vapid infotainment cults - this is the bastard classic, the watermark...
The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping: Home Landscaping with Food-Bearing Plants and Resource-Saving Techniques
AuthorRosalind Creasy
ISBN0871562782
This comprehensive, feature-packed book shows how you can create more beauty around your home, grow delicious healthful produce, and save money and natural resources all at the same time—by landscaping with edible plants.
Author Rosalind Creasy, a landscape designer and leading authority...
Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies
AuthorJohn Paul Lederach
ISBN1878379739
A major work from a seminal figure in the field of conflict resolution, "Building Peace" is John Paul Lederach's definitive statement on peacebuilding. Marrying wisdom, insight, and passion, Lederach explains why we need to move beyond "traditional" diplomacy, which often emphasizes top-level...
Book of Haikus
AuthorJack Kerouac
Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Following in the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre,...
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