As a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, bioregional activist, Zen Buddhist, and reluctant counterculture guru, Gary Snyder has been a major artistic force in America for over five decades, extending far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into the public eye.Danger on Peaks begins with po...
After, sitting on the bench and drinking juice, crowd chatting, a slender woman with dark hair came by and flashed a smile. She had her daughter with her, maybe nine. Also dark short hair. Introduced her, “This is Shandel.” I said “Please — tell me about the name Shandel.” The mother sat on the b...