THE GREAT CLOD: NOTES AND MEMOIRS ON NATURE AND HISTORY IN EAST ASIA

Book ID/图书代码： 03371015B82194

English Summary/英文概要： For the full course of his remarkable career, Gary Snyder has continued his study of Eastern culture and philosophies. From the Ainu to the Mongols, from Hokkaido to Kyoto, from the landscapes of China to the backcountry of contemporary Japan, from the temples of Daitokoji to the Yellow River Valley, it is now clear how this work has influenced his poetry, his stance as an environmental and political activist, and his long practice of Zen. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Asia became a vocation for Snyder. While most American writers looked to the capitals of Europe for their inspiration, Sndyer looked East. American letters is profoundly indebted to this geographical choice.

Long rumored to exist, The Great Clod collects more than a dozen chapters, several published in The Coevolution Quarterly almost forty years ago when Snyder briefly described this work as “The China Book,” and several others, the majority, never before published in any form. “Summer in Hokkaido,” “Wild in China,” “Ink and Charcoal, “ “Stories to Save the World,” “Walking the Great Ridge,” these essays turn from being memoirs of travel to prolonged considerations of art, culture, natural history and religion. Filled with Snyder’s remarkable insights and briskly beautiful descriptions, this collection adds enormously to the major corpus of his work, certain to delight and instruct his readers now and forever.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作为他非凡的一生中,加里•斯奈德继续做着对东方文化和哲学的研究。从阿伊努人到蒙古人,从北海道到京都,从中国的山水到，当代日本的山野，日本的大德寺，到黄河流域,以至于读者可以从当下，很清晰地看到这些足迹是，如何影响到他的诗歌,他对环保主义者和政治活动家的立场，他漫长的禅学研究。成长在太平洋西北地区,亚洲成为施耐德的事业起步点。虽然大多数美国作家都倾向于，欧洲各国的风景名胜之地汲取创作灵感,斯奈德却情牵东方。……

Awards/获奖情况："What thoughtful beauty! How skillfully Gary Snyder interfuses the practical knowledge of an animal sense with story, language, and song. True teachers in American are now an endangered species. I learn so much from this good man’s perception, humor, discipline, and love for this world."—James Hillman

The noted poet and essayist returns with a deceptively small book enfolding a lifetime’s worth of study. Snyder (This Present Moment, 2015, etc.) was an environmentalist before that word was widely applied, "radicalized," he memorably writes, "by the ghosts of the original trees still hanging out by their stumps and telling me what had gone on" in the overlogged forests of the Puget Sound. He has also be! en a student of Asian religions for seven decades. Both interests infor! m this slender volume, which reads as a kind of personalized digest of scholarship and history blended with memoir and travelogue—a book, in short, not quite like any other but trademark Snyder, its learning lightly worn but profoundly stated. The author begins on a rueful note that will be repeated elsewhere: that he had imagined, in his exuberant youth, that by going to China and Japan he would be immersing himself in civilizations that treated the land better than the materialist West did. Not so, he writes with wisdom gained: "large, civilized societies inevitably have a harsh effect on the natural environment, regardless of philosophical or religious values." His reading of East Asian history is a kind of understated study of the Fall of Man, tinged with anarchist morals; in the place of "a free, untaxed, self-sustaining people" rises a bureaucratized, state-governed society amenable to such things as slavery and despoliation. Religious traditions such as Taoism ! rise in critique, offering other objects of striving than the material: says one Buddhist exhortation, "the Perfect Way is without difficulty: strive hard!" Classical poetry, calligraphy, the best source of temple incense—all figure in the text, which has something of the feel of a valediction. Elegant and thoughtful, with much to read between the lines in commentary on a long life’s work. Students and admirers of Snyder will be enchanted and intrigued.

About the Author/作者介绍： 加里•斯奈德(Gary Snyder,1930-)是20世纪美国著名生态诗人、生态散文家、翻译家。他生于旧金山，早年移居到美国西北部，在他父母的农场工作，1951毕业于里德学院，获得文学和人类学学位，后来进入加利福尼亚大学攻读东方语言文学，并参加了垮掉派诗歌运动。他翻译的寒山诗对他产生了一定的影响，致使他东渡日本(1956-1968)，出家为僧3年，醉心于研习禅宗，1969年回到美国后，与他的日本妻子定居于加利福尼亚北部山区，过着非常简朴的生活。1984年，加里•斯奈德与美国著名诗人艾伦•金斯伯格(Allen Ginsberg)作为美国作家代表团的成员一起来中国访问,终于一圆他30年来的亲临“中央王国”之梦。1985年他成为加利福尼亚大学戴维斯分校的教授，同时继续广泛地游历、阅读和讲学，致力于生态保护，并于2003年当选为美国诗人学院院士。

Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist (frequently described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology"[2]). Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder served as a faculty member at the University of California, Davis, and he also served for a time on the California Arts Council.

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