{"product_id":"the-back-country-0811201945","title":"The Back Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0811201945\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Snyder, Gary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit.\"Kirkus Reviews This collection is made up of four sections: \"Far West\"poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; \"Far East\"poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto; \"Kali\"poems inspired by a visit to India and his reading of Indian religious texts, particularly those of Shivaism and Tibetan Buddhism; and \"Back\"poems done on his return to this country in 1964 which look again at our West with the eyes of India and Japan. The book concludes with a group of translations of the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933), with whose work Snyder feels a close affinity. The title, The Back Country, has three major associations; wilderness. the \"backward\" countries, and the back country\" of the mind with its levels of being in the unconscious.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52275315867936,"sku":"NEW0811201945","price":14.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/917h5ZsonIL.jpg?v=1788088116","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-back-country-0811201945","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}