{"product_id":"the-back-country","title":"The Back Country","description":"This collection is made up of four sections: \"Far West\"--poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; \"Far East\"--poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto; \"Kali\"--poems inspired by a visit to India and his reading of Indian religious texts, particularly those of Shivaism and Tibetan Buddhism; and \"Back\"--poems done on his return to this country in 1964 which look again at our West with the eyes of India and Japan. The book concludes with a group of translations of the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933), with whose work Snyder feels a close affinity. The title, \u003cem\u003eThe Back Country\u003c\/em\u003e, has three major associations; wilderness. the \"backward\" countries, and the \"back country\" of the mind with its levels of being in the unconscious.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833684734157,"sku":"9780811201940","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_d30b268a-c6b6-432a-b8ed-f4948eaf1279.jpg?v=1790892801","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/the-back-country","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}