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The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only
because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future
can bring about .... Since only one of these essays is listed as a translation ...
The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only
because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future
can bring about .... Since only one of these essays is listed as a translation ...
Page 139
They discovered a poetry of the present , of presence , and given to the occasion
. There was an undertone of confidentiality in Chinese verse , in part the result of
a literary class , indeed a purely literary language which automatically excluded ...
They discovered a poetry of the present , of presence , and given to the occasion
. There was an undertone of confidentiality in Chinese verse , in part the result of
a literary class , indeed a purely literary language which automatically excluded ...
Page 142
The young Gary Snyder had already schooled himself in both Buddhism and
Jeffers , and had already written from the deep wilderness , “ Hard rock wavers /
Even the heavy present seems to fail / This bubble of a heart / ... A clear attentive
...
The young Gary Snyder had already schooled himself in both Buddhism and
Jeffers , and had already written from the deep wilderness , “ Hard rock wavers /
Even the heavy present seems to fail / This bubble of a heart / ... A clear attentive
...
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Contents
The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | A Poet's Work: The Other Side of Poetry |
| Author | Sam Hamill |
| Contributors | Malloy Lithographing (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Broken Moon Press |
| Publisher | Broken Moon Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0913089036, 9780913089033 |
| Length | 229 pages |
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