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Nobody Home - Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places (Paperback)
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Nobody Home - Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places (Paperback)
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Loot Price R348
Discovery Miles 3 480
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In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and
letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with
South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period
many things changed decisively--globally, locally, and in their
personal lives--and these changing conditions provide the back
story for a long conversation. It begins in the early 1980s as an
intellectual exchange between an earnest graduate student and a
generous distinguished writer, and becomes a long-distance
friendship and an exploration of spiritual practice.
At the project's heart is Snyder's understanding of Buddhism. Again
and again, the conversations return to an explication of the
teachings. Snyder's characteristic approach is to articulate a
direct experience of Buddhist practice rather than any kind of
abstract philosophy. In the version he describes here, this
practice finds expression not primarily as an Asian import or a
monastic ideal, but in the specificities of a householder's life as
lived creatively in a particular location at a particular moment in
history. This means that whatever "topic" a dialogue explores,
there is a sense that all of it is about practice--the
spiritual-social practice of a contemporary poet.
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