It is Cormac McCarthy’s command of the English language that primarily draws me to his work. McCarthy has a bigger vocabulary than any other author I can think of, and he uses it to perfectly express a dark lyric vision of America and the West. If nothing else, he has written possibly my favorite sentence [...]
So the Star Tribune did a decent piece on Gary Snyder a week before his appearance in St. Paul. The big pull quote that flagged the story on the front page of the “Variety” section was
“Wilderness is not, as Thoreau said, ‘the preservation of the world.’ It Is the World.”
Just a few days ago, the [...]
This post exists for no other reason to give props to Erich at Cached Memories for a beautiful piece of writing about memory, place, and… smells.
When I left Duluth briefly after college I arrived home (at my parents’) in the fall. Farmers were harvesting their crops and the air was sweet and dry with dusty [...]
Snyder leaned back on the couch, closed his eyes, and recited a famous haiku by Kobayashi Issa, who wrote in Japan about 200 years ago. “Tsuyu no ya wa/ tsuyu no yo nagara/ sarinagara.” Then he translated: “This dewdrop world/ is but a dewdrop world/ and yet. … ”
“If you gloss the poem, it means, [...]
“I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.” - Kerouac
One of the best poets alive today — or in my opinion, the best poet alive today — is coming to St. Paul this month.
I can hardly contain myself.
Gary Snyder, hero to my heroes, profound poet, wanderer of the wild, mounter of mountains, meditator, dharma bum, will participate in Minnesota Public Radio’s Talking [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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