Poem for the birds

they Gary Snyder

Translated from English (United States) by Marie-Christine Masset

The Astral Beaver, 152 pp., €16

Friend of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, winner of the Pulitzer Poetry Prize in 1975, the American Gary Snyder left his mark on the Beat generation with a poetry rooted in myths, shamanism and Zen. Various influences to better praise the land, campaigning through language and action to defend, and sublimate, the savage. This major collection, published in 1960 when he was 26, is constructed in three parts linking man and his soil, going back to the gestures of a primary ecology: logging, hunting, fires. A long, bewitching song, to rediscover the world: “I am sitting without thinking at the edge of the wooden path / I am hatching a new myth. »

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