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We are proud to continue our project of publishing Deluxe Audio Editions of the poems of Gary Snyder, read by him. When first published in 2004, it was the poet's first new collection of poems in twenty years. Perhaps his most personal, autobiographical collection, it begins with the young poet ascending Mt. St. Helens in 1945, a climb accidentally timed with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was 15 years old. Almost sixty years later, after the great Buddhas at Bamiyan Valley were bombed and with the victims of the World Trade Center also "turned to dust," the poet composed a prayer while at Short Grass Temple in Senso-ji, a pilgrim on the path of Kannon, Goddess of Mercy. This remarkable collection was greeted with broad praise, and as Julia Martin proclaimed, "Moving between relative and absolute ways of seeing, [Snyder] responds to the experience of global conflict and personal pain by reminding readers of the continuity of wildness, affirming the value of art, and invoking an ancient practice of wisdom and compassion.". Intro -- Contents -- I. Mount St. Helens -- The Mountain -- The Climb -- Atomic Dawn -- Some Fate -- 1980: Letting Go -- Blast Zone -- To Ghost Lake -- Pearly Everlasting -- Enjoy the Day -- II. Ye Older Matters -- Brief Years -- Glacier Ghosts -- III. Daily Life -- What to Tell, Still -- Strong Spirit -- Sharing an Oyster With the Captain -- Summer of '97 -- Really the Real -- Ankle-deep in Ashes -- Winter Almond -- Mariano Vallejo's Library -- Waiting for a Ride -- IV. Steady, They Say -- Doctor Coyote When He Had a Problem -- Claws / Cause -- How Many? -- Loads on the Road -- Carwash Time -- To All the Girls Whose Ears I Pierced Back Then -- She Knew All About Art -- Coffee, Markets, Blossoms -- In the Santa Clarita Valley -- Almost Okay Now -- Sus -- Day's Driving Done -- Snow Flies, Burn Brush, Shut Down -- Icy Mountains Constantly Walking -- For Philip Zenshin Whalen D. 26 June 2002 -- For Carole -- Steady, They Say -- V. Dust in the Wind -- Gray Squirrels -- One Day in Late Summer -- Spilling the Wind -- California Laurel -- Baking Bread -- One Empty Bus -- No Shadow -- Shandel -- Night Herons -- The Acropolis Back When -- The Emu -- The Hie Shrine and the "One-Tree" District -- Cormorants -- To Go -- One Thousand Cranes -- For Anthea Corinne Snyder Lowry -- The Great Bell of the Gion -- VI. After Bamiyan -- After Bamiyan -- Loose on Earth -- Falling from a Height, Holding Hands -- Sensō-ji -- Envoy -- Notes -- Thanks To -- Acknowledgments -- Audio CD Track LIsting.
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