Legendary American poet and outdoors enthusiast Gary Snyder, who first came to notice as part of the Beat Generation in 1950s San Francisco, published the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poems and essays Turtle Island in 1974, all of them connected by his desire for people to live in harmony with the planet and all the life it plays home to. This book contains many of the author’s most-quoted pieces, and it works equally well as standalone poetry and political prose as it does a convincing call for us to reconnect with the environment and conserve the natural world.
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Legendary American poet and outdoors enthusiast Gary Snyder, who first came to notice as part of the Beat Generation in 1950s San Francisco, published the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poems and essays Turtle Island in 1974, all of them connected by his desire for people to live in harmony with the planet and all the life it plays home to. This book contains many of the author’s most-quoted pieces, and it works equally well as standalone poetry and political prose as it does a convincing call for us to reconnect with the environment and conserve the natural world.