From the Grande Chartreuse: For Gary Snyder
Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1981. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. "We walk the mountains, do our books and paintings,/ Recall the good scattered through the downward/ World. Our kind persists, stronger than slate,/ War, convention, power, hatred. Life is/ Profitless, and all the world is seeking death." (from Part I, "Seyssins") A chapbook with the title two-part poem by Thomas Parkinson (1920-1992), the provocative, prophetic poet & professor who embodied..... More
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