Abstract

'Editions of Gary Snyder's poems cited here are as follows: Riprap, & Cold Mountain Poems (San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965), hereafter cited as RCM; and The Back Country (New York: New Directions, 1968), hereafter cited as BC. Water and Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout from Riprap, & Cold Mountain Poems reprinted by permission of Gary Snyder. Poems from The Back Country copyright ?1957, 1966, 1968 by Gary Snyder. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. The Kierkegaard quotation comes from Repetition, trans. and ed. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983) 212. Kikaku's haiku appears in Haiku, trans. R. H. Blyth, 4 vols. (Japan: Kamakura Bunko, 1949) 3:71. The Snyder passage is taken from Lookout's Journal, in Earth House Hold (New York: New Directions, 1969) 5. 2By wilderness poetry I mean a crucial segment of Snyder's oeuvre that includes

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