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\nphone photo of Gary Snyder walking in Battery Park City, River Terrace, near Poets House<\/em><\/p>\n

This week at at Poets House NYC – Gary Snyder! who gave a reading both charming and profound, filled with stories and general lightheartedness, lore, and wisdom. <\/p>\n

With regard to his introduction as being a great one for walking:
\n“You should hear about my driving…. Don’t forget about your tools and your automobile repairs and your oil changes in the midst of all your walking.”<\/p>\n

With regard to getting scolded for using the description “East Coast thinking”:
\n“Sometimes you have to say that… it’s not criticism, it’s anthropology.”<\/p>\n

Italian saying:
\n“An angry person cannot catch a fish.”<\/p>\n

On Ezra Pound’s dictum to Make it new!:
\n“I’d just as soon Make It Old.”<\/p>\n

On being asked how he maintains such an optimistic attitude:
\n“I’m not optimistic, I’m just good-natured.”<\/p>\n

Mantra for a frustrating day:
\n“I try to remember machinery can always be fixed.”<\/p>\n

Rhyming couplet at the end of a poem:
\n“Don’t need much light
\nfor stories in the night.”<\/p>\n

Also featured, a discussion with Jonathan Skinner of ecopoetics fame. Some remarks were made about metaphor – that Gary’s poems are low on metaphor. Gary claims that he doesn’t consciously avoid metaphor. I felt the cold smell of a deeper, more ancient practice of metaphor enter the room. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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