The Back Country
10 best books like The Back Country (Gary Snyder): Pomes All Sizes, Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, 1950-1971, Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems, Silence in the Snowy Fields, Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems, The Selected Poems, My Alexandria, Selected Poems, Selected Poems, Planet News
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 0872862690 |
The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac’s death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems,...
| Author | Lew Welch |
| ISBN | 0912516038 |
DIFFICULTY ALONG THE WAY
Seeking Perfect Total Enlightenment
is looking for a flashlight
when all you need the flashlight for
is to find your flashlight
..the following, a last stanza from poem: ["He Finally Reaches The City"]
Is this, then, the
Mystical...
| Author | Diane di Prima |
| ISBN | 0872862372 |
"Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in imagist, political and mystical modes....
| Author | Robert Bly |
| ISBN | 0819510157 |
The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now--these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead...
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
| ISBN | 0811202348 |
This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures from Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of The Desert Music (1954) and Journey...
| Author | A.R. Ammons |
| ISBN | 0393303969 |
I read this collection on the basis of a poem I read upon open the book to a random page...
I said
Mr. Schafer
did you get up to see the comet:
and
he said
Oh no
let it go by, I don't care:
- Dominion (pg. 43)
This poem contains the humour of a poet who once referred...
| Author | Mark Doty |
| ISBN | 0252022106 |
A versatile, technically astute poet, Doty masterfully tackles themes of death, beauty and discovery in this collection. Particularly moving is "Days of 1981," in which he recalls the memory of his first gay lover--a sculptor he met in a bar. "Nothing was promised, nothing sustained/or lethal offered....
| Author | Denise Levertov |
| ISBN | 0811215202 |
Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view of her ground-breaking poetry -- the work of a...
| Author | Robinson Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0394702956 |
Robinson Jeffers died in 1962 at the age of seventy-five, ending one of the most controversial poetic careers of this century.
The son of a theology professor at Western Seminary in Pittsburgh, Jeffers was taught Greek, Latin, and Hebrew as a boy, and spent three years in Germany and Switzerland...
| Author | Allen Ginsberg |
| ISBN | 0872860205 |
Planet News collecting seven years’ Poesy scribed to 1967 begins with electronic politics disassociation & messianic rhapsody TV Baby in New York, continues picaresque around the globe, elan perceptions notated at Mediterranean, Galilee & Ganges till next breakthrough, comedown...
| Author | William Stafford |
| ISBN | 1881090167 |
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...
| Author | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| ISBN | 0811200469 |
The long poems of Starting From San Francisco present a new, quieter, more profound aspect of the poet. His original lyricism and caustic humor have been confronted, as it were, with the real presence of evil and death. "Starting from Paumanok... I strike up for a New World" wrote Walt Whitman in 1860....
| Author | John Suiter |
| ISBN | 1582431485 |
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...
| Author | Richard Brautigan |
| ISBN | 0224619330 |
Brautigan's poetic style is often surreal, often tender, with touches of humor. The poems are written in clear, straightforward free verse. Here is an example of his style from "The Chinese Checker Players": "When I was six years old/I played Chinese checkers/with a woman/who was ninety-three years...
