Gary Snyder: Songs of the Life Cycle

The Lindisfarne Tapes - A podcast by The Schumacher Center for a New Economics

Gary Snyder, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Turtle Island, reads from his work to illustrate the way in which he is currently thinking about poetry. He suggests that poetry represents songs of the life cycle, and shares poems that embody birth, childhood, adolescence, work, love, celebration, healing, and death. (Episode photo courtesy of allenginsberg.org)

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