{"product_id":"9780811201940","title":"Back Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e“A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit.\"—Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011660431600,"sku":"9780811201940","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811201940_p0.jpg?v=1763739350","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811201940","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}