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PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100865471207
ISBN-139780865471207
eBay Product ID (ePID)823068
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Book TitleAxe Handles : Poems
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral
Publication Year1982
GenrePoetry
AuthorGary. Snyder
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight56.1 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN83-061398
Reviews"Axe Handlespresents poems that reflect a fine balance between physical reality and inner insight. Snyder emphasizes natural cycles, sees the oneness of things rather than their separateness, observes directly without pretense or arrogance. . . . His sense of the history of land and cultures and his ability to write as both the Worker and the Thinker create a fertile whole."--Los Angeles Times Book Review, "Axe Handles presents poems that reflect a fine balance between physical reality and inner insight. Snyder emphasizes natural cycles, sees the oneness of things rather than their separateness, observes directly without pretense or arrogance. . . . His sense of the history of land and cultures and his ability to write as both the Worker and the Thinker create a fertile whole."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
Dewey Decimal811/.54
SynopsisThis book was Snyder's first collection of poetry after Turtle Island, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1974. The poems in Axe Handles reveal the roots of community in the family, and also explore the transmission of cultural values and knowledge. Above all, these are poems about language--that is, language as the preeminent manifestation of culture. In the title poem, we read: "I am an axe / And my son a handle, soon / To be shaping again, model / And tool, craft of culture, / How we go on.", This is a collection of discovery, of insight, and of vision. These poems see the roots of community in the family, and the roots of culture and government in the community. "In making the handle of an axe by cutting wood with an axe the model is indeed near at hand." In exploring this axiom of Lu Ji's, Gary Snyder continues: I am an axeAnd my son a handle, soonTo be shaping again, modelAnd tool, craft of culture, How we go on.Formally, the 71 poems in Axe Handles range from lyrics to riddles to narratives. The collection is divided into three parts, called "Loops, " "Little Songs for Gaia, " and "Nets, " each containing poems of disciplined clarity. Gary Snyder knows well the great power of silence in a poem, silence that allows the mind space enough to discover the magic of song.
LC Classification NumberPS3569.N88A97 1983
