Regarding Wave

Poetry

By: Gary Snyder

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Paperback | 1 January 1970 | Edition Number 1

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The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.'"

"Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human affairs"—the beautiful, precarious balance among forces and species forms a unifying theme for the new poems in this collection. The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone Beyond Wisdom.'" Central to the work is a cycle of songs for Snyder's wife, Masa, and their first son, Kai. Probing even further than Snyder's previous collection of poems, The Back Country, this new 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..."

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Gary Snyder's following approaches a discipleship as he moves further on the course projected by the Beats. The aesthetic values of his work hinge almost entirely on his spiritual program; but the unaccountable excellence of much of it, for example a poem like "White Devils," lies in the capacity to gut-communicate the urgency of "the most archaic values on earth" without recourse to any kind of logical or symbolic gloss. His interest is in the bedrock of sensibility: the indivisible and unparaphrasable meanings of objects in themselves, the pure prepositions of their self-governed and man-governed relationships, the endless rhyming of natural shape and process. The senses (with a sixth, empathic letting-go) are his evidence, but more, a mystic juncture like the line of sky meeting earth; and of all his divorces (from the urban, the specialized, the contemporary, the Western) the most important is the finally unachievable one of freeing his perceptions from the limits of human scale. The further he stretches those boundaries - the more passive, wide-ranging, and notational the poems become - strangely, the easier it is to recognize the mystery of humanness. By comparison, his allusions to received mysticisms show as so much exotic bibliography. (Kirkus Reviews)

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