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Dooby Lane: Also Known as Guru Road, A Testament Inscribed in Stone Tablets by DeWayne Williams by Gary Snyder 9781619027909
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $45.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027909Author Gary SnyderFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour by Bill Morgan 9780872864177
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $24.74A blow-by-blow unearthing of the places where the Beat writers first came to full bloom: the flat where Ginsberg wrote "Howl;" Gary Snyder's zen cottage in Berkeley; the ghostly railroad yards where... -
Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis by Jason M. Wirth 9781438465425
Booksplease Price: $53.87Engages the global ecological crisis through a radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth.FINALIST for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Philosophy category... -
Nature's Kindred Spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Gary Snyder by James I. McClintock 9780299141745
Booksplease Price: $37.93Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Gary Snyder - these writers have all recorded their encounters with nature. In this volume, McClintock shows how their mystical... -
He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village: The Dimensions of a Haida Myth, With a Foreword by Richard Bringhurst and a New Afterword by the Author by Gary Snyder 9781593761554
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593761554Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CounterpointPublisher... -
A Zen Forest: Zen Sayings by Soiko Shigematsu
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54The essence of Zen is contained in the phrases and poems presented here, along with an introduction by Gary Snyder. The sayings range from profound to mystifying to comical and appear in vivid,... -
The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $53.03Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as if he were... -
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford
Booksplease Price: $43.83From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers... -
Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America by Helen Tworkov 9781250321558
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $37.97From one of the central figures in Buddhism's introduction to the West and the founder of Tricycle magazine comes a brilliant memoir of forging one's own path that Pico Iyer calls 'unflinching' and... -
The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes by Rick Bass
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.96On the Road meets Tuesdays with Morrie in this pilgrimage by "an American classic" (Newsweek) to thank his most important mentors through memorable meals and conversations"Some years later, George... -
Bowed Some, Chanted a Little: Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco Renaissance by Brian Unger 9780817360139
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $62.45The literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest Philip Whalen (1923-2002) authored... -
The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health by Jennifer Thomson 9781469651644
RRP: $165.90Booksplease Price: $141.54Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet... -
Out There: Dispatches from My Personal Wilderness Lance Garland 9781595343253
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $24.74Out There recounts one man's search to lead an authentic life, an adventure that takes him all over the world and through some of the biggest societal changes of recent history. From a distance, this... -
Syncopations: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark by James Campbell 9780520252370
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94This compulsively readable collection of profiles and essays by James Campbell, tied together by a beguiling autobiographical thread, proffers unique observations on writers and writing in the... -
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit 9780140286014
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $28.39A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city... -
The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health by Jennifer Thomson 9781469651996
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet... -
Bear with Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America by Daniel Horowitz 9781478028826
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $163.15From teddy bears and Winnie-the-Pooh to Smokey Bear, Yogi Bear, and Cocaine Bear, American popular culture has been fascinated with real and fictional bears for more than two centuries. Bears are... -
Bear with Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America by Daniel Horowitz 9781478032373
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76From teddy bears and Winnie-the-Pooh to Smokey Bear, Yogi Bear, and Cocaine Bear, American popular culture has been fascinated with real and fictional bears for more than two centuries. Bears are... -
On the Road by Jack Kerouac 9780241951538
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $10.75On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged... -
No Nature by SNYDER
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $31.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Poetry) 1992.Book InformationISBN 9780679742524Author Gary SnyderFormat... -
Nobody Home: Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places by Julia Martin 9781595342515
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.46In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period many... -
Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation by Carole Tonkinson
Booksplease Price: $41.90Essays, poems, photographs, and letters explore the link between Buddhism and the Beats--with previously unpublished material from several beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg,... -
Zen and Japanese Culture by Daisetz T. Suzuki 9780691182964
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $38.03Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. In simple and poetic... -
The Portable North American Indian Reader by Various 9780140150773
Booksplease Price: $56.11MYTHS, TALES, POETRY AND ORATORY BY NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE IROQUOIS, CHEROKEE, WINNEBAGO, SIOUX, BLACKFEET, HOPI, AND MANY OTHER TRIBES. ACCOUNTS OF INDIAN LIFE BY WHITE OBSERVERS FROM BERNAL... -
Ring of Bone: Collected Poems: Collected Poems (New & Expanded Edition) by Lew Welch 9780872865792
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $32.95**A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2012** Lew Welch was a brilliant and troubled poet, legendary among his Beat peers. Ring of Bone collects poems, songs, and even a few drawings, documenting... -
A FIELD Guide to Contemporary Poetry and Poetics: Revised Edition by David Walker 9780932440778
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $36.73One of the hallmarks of FIELD magazine has always been its attention to what poets have to say about poetry. Many of these essays--by William Stafford, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Adrienne Rich,... -
The Biosphere and the Bioregion: Essential Writings of Peter Berg by Cheryll Glotfelty
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Bioregionalism asks us to reimagine ourselves and the places where we live in ecological terms and to harmonize human activities with the natural systems that sustain life. As one of the originators... -
The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism Linda Wagner-Martin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) 9781138746657
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $81.54The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors... -
Poetic Animals and Animal Souls by Randy Malamud 9781349731381
Booksplease Price: $97.19This book offers a new paradigm for reading and appreciating animals in literature and addresses how human culture views animals in poetry. Part one sets up a theoretical overview and posits some... -
Poetic Animals and Animal Souls by Randy Malamud 9781403961785
Booksplease Price: $97.19This book offers a new paradigm for reading and appreciating animals in literature and addresses how human culture views animals in poetry. Part one sets up a theoretical overview and posits some... -
The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving Genre by Vernon Hyles 9780313261602
Booksplease Price: $160.67A groundbreaking contribution to the critical literature, this volume represents the most extensive study of the fantastic in poetry published to date. Designed to serve both as an introduction to... -
Light from the East: Eastern Wisdom for the Modern West by Harry Oldmeadow 9781933316222
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.68This anthology, "Light from the East", asks the question: what lessons can the modern West learn from the traditions of the East? One of the books central themes is that living traditions of the East... -
At Home on the Earth: Becoming Native to Our Place: A Multicultural Anthology by David Landis Barnhill 9780520216846
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $46.54Nature writing, as Thoreau knew, can be deeply subversive because it points to ways of living that diverge fundamentally from dominant attitudes. Thoreau would have welcomed these essays by America's... -
Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity by Jonathan White
Booksplease Price: $28.31During the 1980s and 90s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and writers from an array... -
Talking on the Water by Jonathan White 9781595348852
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.29During the 1980s and 90s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and writers from an array... -
Because the Light Will Not Forgive Me: Essays from a Poet by Shaun T. Griffin
Booksplease Price: $58.44This is a book of essays about the American West, ranging from what it means to be a poet/artist, to social justice and environmental concerns, to memory, place, and landscape. It's about looking... -
Ecopoetry: Critical Introduction by J.Scott Bryson
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08The burgeoning field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of such ecopoets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with... -
Seeing the Beat Generation: Entering the Literature through Film Raj Chandarlapaty 9781476675756
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $54.29Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; they crossed and navigated multicultural boundaries and questioned the American dream; and... -
Pluralism, Poetry, and Literacy: A Test of Reading and Interpretive Techniques by Xavier Kalck 9780367741198
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Drawing from Medieval and Renaissance studies, analytic philosophy and pragmatism, Jewish studies, as well as ecocriticism and environmental humanities, this book demonstrates the consistent... -
Conversations with Michael McClure by David Stephen Calonne 9781496851994
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of McClure's creativity. McClure (1932-2020) is notable not only for his...