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Earth Verse

Gary Snyder, Gary Snyder poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, Beat poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Buddhist poetry by Gary Snyder
(1930 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English
Secular or Eclectic : Beat
Buddhist : Zen / Chan
Contemporary

Wide enough to keep you looking

Open enough to keep you moving

Dry enough to keep you honest

Prickly enough to make you tough

Green enough to go on living

Old enough to give you dreams

 

 

-- from Mountains and Rivers Without End, by Gary Snyder

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Themes

  Dream
  Sleep
 
 
 


Recommended Books


Back Country, by Gary Snyder
Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation, by Carole Tonkinson
Earth House Hold, by Gary Snyder
The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry and Translations, 1952 - 1998, by Gary Snyder
Mountains and Rivers Without End, by Gary Snyder

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