Axe Handles: Poems
A poetry collection by Gary Snyder that explores family, community, and the passing on of cultural knowledge. Through short, carefully shaped poems, it links everyday life with nature and reflection.
Work Information
It traces the feel of family and culture through concise, quiet poems.
Axe Handles is a poetry collection in which Gary Snyder examines the wisdom passed down within families and the sense of culture formed inside a community. Its 71 poems, arranged in three parts, move between the texture of daily life and a longer philosophical afterglow.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Published
- 2005-01-28
- Pages
- 128 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.94 x 0.94 x 20.93 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781593760571
- ISBN-10
- 1593760574
- Price
- 3048 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/History & Criticism/Criticism & Theory
In Axe Handles Mr. Snyder reveals the roots of community in the family and explores the transmission of cultural values and knowledge. "In making the handle of an axe by cutting wood with an axe the model is indeed near at hand." In exploring this axiom of Lu Ji’s, Gary Snyder continues: I am an axe And my son a handle, soon To be shaping again, model And tool, craft of culture, How we go on. This is a collection of discovery, of insight, and of vision. These poems see the roots of community in the family, and the roots of culture and government in the community. Formally, the 71 poems in Axe Handles range from lyrics to riddles to narratives. The collection is divided into three parts, called "Loops," "Little Songs for Gaia," and "Nets," each containing poems of disciplined clarity. Gary Snyder knows well the great power of silence in a poem, silence that allows the mind space enough to discover the magic of song.
Gary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award. His 1992 collection, No Nature , was a National Book Award finalist, and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, educator and Zen Buddhist.
Reviews
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The best beat poet
Undoubtedly the best of the beat poets, Snyder has a lean, well honed, cosmopolitan style that is such an easy an enjoyable read. Why hasn’t he won the Nobel prize?
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Five stars
Snyder offering wonderful nature poetry here. I really enjoyed reading these poems.
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Gary Snyder (japhy ryder for you kerouac fans) is the man!
My favorite Snyder book. This is a gift to a family friend who will love it.... Snyder is who Frost ought to have been... This book, like william stafford's poetry, is real and tangible and you can taste the subjects and drink them in and he helps you understand them... it is just a wonderful piece of work by one of america's great great poets.
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Snyder.
One of Gary's great works.
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No Problems
Arrived quickly and matched the seller's description.
Related Literary Awards
- American Book Awards Edition 5 (1984) ・Winner