A Sense of the Whole

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ISBN: 9781619024564

Reading Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End

Mark Gonnerman

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Counterpoint
09 June 2015

Poetry

In 1997, Mark Gonnerman organized a yearlong research workshop on Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End at the Stanford Humanities Center.

Members of what came to be known among faculty, students, and diverse community members as the Mountains & Rivers Workshop met regularly to read and discuss Snyder's epic poem. Here the poem served as a commons that turned the multiversity into a university once again, if only for a moment.

The Workshop invited writers, teachers and scholars from Northern California and Japan to speak on various aspects of Snyder's great accomplishment.

This book captures the excitement of these gatherings and invites readers to enter the poem through essays and talks by David Abram, Wendell Berry, Carl Bielefeldt, Tim Dean, Jim Dodge, Robert Hass, Stephanie Kaza, Julia Martin, Michael McClure, Nanao Sakaki, and Katsunori Yamazato.

It includes an interview with Gary Snyder, appendices, and other resources for further study.

Snyder once introduced a reading of this work with reference to whitewater rapids, saying most of his writing is like a Class III run where you will do just fine on your own, but that Mountains and Rivers is more like Class V-

if you're going to make it to take-out, you need a guide.

As a collection of commentaries and background readings, this companion volume enhances each reader's ability to find their way into and through an adventurous and engaging work of art.

By: Mark Gonnerman
Imprint: Counterpoint
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 638g
ISBN: 9781619024564
ISBN 10: 161902456X
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 09 June 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Gonnerman grew up in Northfield, MN. He attended the Paracollege of St. Olaf College and Harvard Divinity School. As a Lieberman Fellow, he completed his Ph.D. and was founding director of the Aurora Forum at Stanford University. Married to Meri Mitsuyoshi, he is a teacher and independent scholar based in San Jose, CA.