Hi - really great work with lots of interesting material. Thank you.
Love the part on "toxic colonialism" - so present at the heart of what we now deal with. Not only is it an environmental mess but it is a psychological & cultural mess.
This also jogs my longtime interest in poet Gary Snyder & deep ecology.
The real work lies at an intersection of culture we may not be entirely at ease with.
Gary Snyder is an old acquaintance and neighbor from California. I consider him to be one of my foremost teachers as well.
Snyder is not your quintessential poet - he’s not “our” quintessential anything. Snyder has taught what I consider to be a most important lesson - that unless we have respect, understanding and love for our land and the natural inhabitants we will not be capable of respect, understanding or love for ourselves and each other.
Whether it comes to fire ecology or the web of life of which we are a part he speaks to this.
Hi - really great work with lots of interesting material. Thank you.
Love the part on "toxic colonialism" - so present at the heart of what we now deal with. Not only is it an environmental mess but it is a psychological & cultural mess.
This also jogs my longtime interest in poet Gary Snyder & deep ecology.
The real work lies at an intersection of culture we may not be entirely at ease with.
(https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47754/i-went-into-the-maverick-bar)
(https://www.pulitzer.org/article/poetry-spotlight-i-went-maverick-bar-gary-snyder)
Gary Snyder is an old acquaintance and neighbor from California. I consider him to be one of my foremost teachers as well.
Snyder is not your quintessential poet - he’s not “our” quintessential anything. Snyder has taught what I consider to be a most important lesson - that unless we have respect, understanding and love for our land and the natural inhabitants we will not be capable of respect, understanding or love for ourselves and each other.
Whether it comes to fire ecology or the web of life of which we are a part he speaks to this.
(https://orionmagazine.org/review/back-on-the-fire/)
The best introduction to Snyder's work is his work.