{"product_id":"left-out-in-the-rain-poems-paperback","title":"Left Out in the Rain: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGary Snyder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The reading is something like archeology, sifting the layers that have built up over the years to find the source of a familiar voice . . . Left Out in the Rain shows us the footsteps in the wet meadow grass.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating case study and verse autobiography of a man who long ago staked his claim as one of America's finest poets.\" --\u003ci\u003eBoston Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Gary Snyder was in his twenties working as a forester and logger, one of the old loggers told him, \"If you're gonna work these woods, don't want nothing that can't be left out in the rain.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorrowing the phrase, \u003ci\u003eLeft Out in the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e charts the journeys of the poet from 1947 to 1985. From the mountains and shores of the Pacific Northwest to the city streets of San Francisco, New York, and Kyoto, Snyder's reflections are as much about the human experience as they are about the environment that encompasses it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSensual, sardonic, meditative, epigrammatic, formalist--whatever the subject, tone, or structure, these poems all bear the indelible stamp of a master. A villanelle for Finnish folklore, riffs on the neo-formalist poems trendy in the 1950s, a sestina on the philosophical dilemmas of anthropology and linguistics, a transformation of the third century BC Daoist essay \"Discourse on Swords\" into a satire on contemporary warlike administrations and governments--the experiments in this collection place Snyder among the most diverse of contemporary poets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeft Out in the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e means to include items carefully chosen to outlast the elements and remain useful for years. In his new preface to this edition, Snyder notes, \"This complicated gathering of many poems, tight and loose together is like an understory ecosystem of the Old Growth. It needs rain.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn the wooded coast, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eeating oysters \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLooking off toward \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChina and Japan \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If you're gonna \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ework these woods \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDon't want nothing \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat can't be \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eleft out in the rain--\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Snyder\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eNo Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 09, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748725653792,"sku":"9781593760908","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2070bd09051364410ef67656558a8ac0.webp?v=1779914475","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/left-out-in-the-rain-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}