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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825859703321

Autore

Gray Timothy <1964->

Titolo

Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim : creating countercultural community / / by Timothy Gray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006

ISBN

1-58729-666-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Contemporary North American poetry series

Disciplina

811/.5409

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Soggetti

Authors, American - Homes and haunts - Pacific Coast (North America)

Counterculture - California

Pacific Coast (North America) Intellectual life

California Intellectual life 20th century

Pacific Coast (North America) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-341) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; The Pacific Rim and the San Francisco Renaissance: Two Communities ""Taking Place"" in Mid-century America; 1. Migrating: Exploring the Creaturely Byways of the Pacific Northwest; 2. Translating: The Poetics of Linking East and West; 3. Embodying: Human Geography and the Way to the Back Country; 4. Communing: Tribal Passions in the Late 1960's; Digging In: The Reinhabitation of Turtle Island; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim, Timothy Gray draws upon previously unpublished journals and letters as well as his own close readings of Gary Snyder's well-crafted poetry and prose to track the early career of a maverick intellectual whose writings powered the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950's and 1960's. Exploring various aspects of cultural geography, Gray asserts that this west coast literary community seized upon the idea of a Pacific Rim regional structure in part to recognize their Orientalist desires and in part to consolidate their opposition to America's cold war ideology, whi