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... Gary Snyder : " Again shining on the green moss , above . ” In his comments to Weinberger , Snyder directs the reader's attention to the most obvious of facts : moss grows in the trees . Had the other translators bothered to look ...
... Gary Snyder : " Again shining on the green moss , above . ” In his comments to Weinberger , Snyder directs the reader's attention to the most obvious of facts : moss grows in the trees . Had the other translators bothered to look ...
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... Gary Snyder fifteen years later , responds particularly to a line in the preface to the Wen Fu : When cutting an axe handle with an axe , surely the model is at hand . Snyder's title poem to his 1983 collection of poems , Axe Handles ...
... Gary Snyder fifteen years later , responds particularly to a line in the preface to the Wen Fu : When cutting an axe handle with an axe , surely the model is at hand . Snyder's title poem to his 1983 collection of poems , Axe Handles ...
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... Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen , together as undergraduates at Reed College , began to feel that poets like Tu Fu ... Snyder , Whalen , and others , the Beat Movement turned toward Zen , most of the poets reading all the great old ...
... Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen , together as undergraduates at Reed College , began to feel that poets like Tu Fu ... Snyder , Whalen , and others , the Beat Movement turned toward Zen , most of the poets reading all the great old ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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