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BACK ON THE FIRE Other Books by Gary Snyder Poetry Axe Handles The Back Country Danger on Peaks Left Out in the Rain Mountains and Rivers Without End Myths and Texts No Nature Regarding Wave Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems Turtle Island Prose Earth House Hold The Gary Snyder Reader He Who Hunted Birds in His Father’s Village The High Sierra of California (with Tom Killion) Passage Through India A Place in Space The Practice of the Wild The Real Work BACK ON FIRE THE E (cid:129) S (cid:129) S (cid:129) A (cid:129) Y (cid:129) S G A RY S N Y D E R Counterpoint berkeley Copyright © 2007 by Gary Snyder All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the Publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Snyder, Gary, 1930– Back on the fire : essays / Gary Snyder. p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-163-9 ISBN-10: 1-59376-163-5 I. Title. PS3569.N88B33 2007 814’.54—dc22 2006030689 Book design by Gopa & Ted2, Inc. Printed in the United States of America Counterpoint 2117 Fourth Street Suite D Berkeley, CA 94710 www.counterpointpress.com Distributed by Publishers Group West 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Dedicated to Jack Shoemaker Advisor, Critic, Student, Teacher, Comrade “Heart set on the Way, strong in virtu, grounded with humanity, roaming through the arts” Lun Yü (Analects) VII.6 Contents ■ ■ ■ Part One 1. Fires, Floods, and Following the Dao 3 2. The Ark of the Sierra 9 3. Migration/Immigration: Wandering South and North, Erasing Borders, Coming to Live on Turtle Island 17 4. Ecology, Literature, and the New World Disorder: Gathered on Okinawa 21 5. Thinking Toward the Thousand-Year Forest Plan 37 6. The Mountain Spirit’s True [No] Nature 43 7. The Path to Matsuyama 51 8. Writers and the War Against Nature 61 9. Entering the Fiftieth Millennium 73 10. Lifetimes with Fire 81 Part Two 1. With Wild Surmise 95 2. Sustainability Means Winning Hearts and Minds 97 3. “Can Poetry Change the World?” 99 4. Three Way Tavern 103 5. The Will of Wild Wild Women 107 6. Coyote Makes Things Hard 111 7. Shell Game 117 8. “The Way of Poisons” 121 9. Regarding “Smokey the Bear Sutra” 123 10. On the Problems Lurking in the Phrase “Before the Wilderness” 129 11. Allen Ginsberg Crosses Over 133 12. Highest and Driest 137 13. Afterword to a New Edition of Riprap 141 14. The Cottonwoods 145 15. Harriet Callicotte’s Stone in Kansas 149 16. Empty Shells 155 17. Grown in America 159 Acknowledgments 163 Publications Record 165 PART ONE
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