The Real Work: Interviews and Talks, 1964-79

The Real Work: Interviews and Talks, 1964-79

American poet Gary Snyder on poetics, tribalism, ecology, Zen Buddhism, meditation, the writing process, and more.

The Real WorkÂ is the second volume of Gary Snyderâ€™s prose to be published by New Directions. Where his earlierÂ Earth House Hold(1969) heralded the tribalism of the "coming revolution," the interviews inÂ The Real WorkÂ focus on the living out of that process in a particular place and timeâ€“â€“the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California in the 1970s. The talks and interviews collected here range over fifteen years (1964-79) and encompass styles as different as those of the Berkeley BarbÂ andÂ The New York Quarterly. A "poetics of process" characterizes these exchanges, but in the words of editor Mclean, their chief attraction is "good, plain talk with a man who has a lively and very subtle mind and a wide range of experience and knowledge."
Country USA
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 1980-08-17

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