Thursday, June 21, 2012

Garry snyder, Ishamel Reed on Oil

Oil - Gary Snyder from Robert Creeley Foundation on Vimeo.

Gary Snyder performed this piece on March 17, 2010 at the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Acton, Massachusetts at the annual Robert Creeley Poetry Reading.

Gary Snyder is the 2010 winner of the Robert Creeley Award.


I Pray to Chevron by ishmael Reed with Black thought from the ROOTS

Rehearsal with the Roots in NYC July 11 studio MSR more coming soon ....... music tony Allen arrangement david Murray poem Ishmael Reed

See also:

Poetry reading, Video: Breasts by Gary Snyder

"The Practice of the Wild" Trailer

'The Practice of the Wild' is a film profile of the poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Snyder. Snyder has been a creative force in all the major cultural changes that have created the modern world. Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, he was a central figure of the Beat generation. He helped bring Zen Buddhism into the America scene, was an active participant in the anti-war movement and an inspiration for the quest for human potential. All along he was a founding intellect, essayist and leader of the new environmental awareness that supports legislation and preservation without losing sight of direct wild experience -- local people, animals, plants, watersheds and food sources.

This film, borrowing its name from one of Snyder's most eloquent non-fiction books, revolves around a life-long conversation between Snyder and his fellow poet and novelist Jim Harrison. These two old friends and venerated men of American letters converse while taking a wilderness trek along the central California coast in an area that has been untouched for centuries. They debate the pros and cons of everything from Google to Zen koans. The discussions are punctuated by archival materials and commentaries from Snyder friends, observers, and intimates who take us through the 'Beat' years, the years of Zen study in Japan up to the present -- where Snyder continues to be a powerful spokesperson for ecological sanity and bio-regionalism.

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