Author(s): Gary Snyder

Pre-Loved Books | Poetry

Begins with poems about Snyder's first ascent of Mount St. Helens in 1945 and his learning that atomic bombs had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the morning of his descent. This book contains work in a variety of styles, creating an arc-shaped trail from these earliest climbs to poems "of intimate, immediate life, gossip and insight,".