A collection of poems that marks Gary Snyder's golden years which would culminate with the Pulitzer Prize winning Turtle Island.
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Probing even further than Snyder's previous collection of poems, The Black Country, this 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.'
