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Article: One if by land.(Verse chronicle)(Danger on Peaks)(Book Review)
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- New Criterion
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- December 1, 2004
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Gary Snyder was a marquee poet in the Sixties, when his eco-Buddhist paeans were read in every commune from Maine to Baja. Decades later, their misty imagism, indebted equally to Ezra Pound and Japanese haiku, seems cloying and sentimental, dependent on the Zeitgeist for its effect. The poetry of the day is passe when the day is past, its beauties no longer beautiful; and even a style stronger than Snyder's may sooner or later seem obsolete, like the picket fences of Augustan couplets when the hurricane of romanticism swept through.
The poems of Danger on Peaks, Snyder's first volume of new verse in twenty years, are a throwback to those heady days of ...
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