Signed by the author
SNYDER, Gary. Regarding Wave. Iowa, The Windhover Press, 1969
Tall 8vo. Burgandy cloth boards with gilt lettering to front cover; outer edges untrimmed; printed on handmade Shogun paper; pp. [12] 9-45 [7]; essentially a fine copy, with ever-so-slight sunning to the backstrip.
~b~First, Limited Edition. Number 54/280 copies, signed by the author to the colophon.
Snyder travelled extensivly throughout Asia before he settled in Kyoto and studied under Oda Sessi Roshim, the Zen Master and the leading Abbott of Daitoku-Ji. Subsequently, he established his own commune in an isolated area of the Sierras, California and became a revered spokesperson, advocating preservation of the natural world throughout his extensive literary body. He is quoted as saying, "As Poet, I hold the most archaic values on earth; the fertility of the soul, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude….the common work of the tribe" and his work has aimed, and succeeded, in instilling an ecological conciousness in it's readership.
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