- Street:
- Village Books
- Additional:
- 1200 Eleventh Street
- City:
- Bellingham ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98225
- Country:
- United States
Poet Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives and what has become of them throughout the years. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversations—harnessing their ideas of all that is wild, sacred, and intimate in this world—move from the admission that Snyder's mother was a devout atheist to his personal accounts of his initiation into Zen Buddhist culture, being literally dangled by the ankles over a cliff. After years of living in Japan, Snyder returns to the States to build a farmhouse in the remote foothills of the Sierras, a homestead he calls Kitkitdizze. For all of the depth in these conversations, Harrison and Snyder are humorous and friendly, and with the artfully interspersed dialogue from old friends and loves, the discussion reaches a level of not only the personal, but the global, redefining our idea of the Beat Generation and challenging the future directions of the environmental movement and its association with "Deep Ecology."
The Practice of the Wild video is a companion to the new book, The Etiquette of Freedom, and together they offer a rare glimpse of these iconic writers and their extended discussion of life and what it means to be wild and alive.
Gary Snyder is one of the original beat poets whose work includes Mountains and Rivers Without End and The Gary Snyder Reader.
Jim Harrison is the author of thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including The Farmer's Daughter and In Search of Small Gods, a book of poems. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Snyder and Harrison WILL NOT attend.
2012 Chuckanut Writers Conference
