Gary Snyder's following approaches a discipleship as he moves
further on the course projected by the Beats. The aesthetic values
of his work hinge almost entirely on his spiritual program; but the
unaccountable excellence of much of it, for example a poem like
"White Devils," lies in the capacity to gut-communicate the urgency
of "the most archaic values on earth" without recourse to any kind
of logical or symbolic gloss. His interest is in the bedrock of
sensibility: the indivisible and unparaphrasable meanings of
objects in themselves, the pure prepositions of their self-governed
and man-governed relationships, the endless rhyming of natural
shape and process. The senses (with a sixth, empathic letting-go)
are his evidence, but more, a mystic juncture like the line of sky
meeting earth; and of all his divorces (from the urban, the
specialized, the contemporary, the Western) the most important is
the finally unachievable one of freeing his perceptions from the
limits of human scale. The further he stretches those boundaries -
the more passive, wide-ranging, and notational the poems become -
strangely, the easier it is to recognize the mystery of humanness.
By comparison, his allusions to received mysticisms show as so much
exotic bibliography. (Kirkus Reviews)
"Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human affairs"--the
beautiful, precarious balance among forces and species forms a
unifying theme for the new poems in this collection. The title,
Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series of word origins
dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of
energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.'" Central to the work
is a cycle of songs for Snyder's wife, Masa, and their first son,
Kai. Probing even further than Snyder's previous collection of
poems, The Back Country, this new volume freshly explores "the most
archaic values on earth... the fertility of the soil, the magic of
animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation
and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of
the tribe..."
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