Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim: Creating Countercultural Community

by Timothy Gray

In Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim, Timothy Gray draws upon previously unpublished journals and letters as well as his own close readings of Gary Snyder's well-crafted poetry and prose to track the early career of a maverick intellectual whose writings powered the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. Exploring various aspects of cultural geography, Gray asserts that this west coast literary community seized upon the idea of a Pacific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877459762
• ISBN13: 9780877459767
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"