In the Sierra

Mountain Writings

Kenneth Rexroth author Kim Stanley Robinson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published:16th Mar '12

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

In the Sierra cover

Over the course of his life, Kenneth Rexroth wrote about the Sierra Nevada better than anyone. Progressive in terms of environmental ethics and comparable to the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Aldo Leopard, Annie Dillard, and Gary Snyder, Rexroth’s poetry and prose described the way Californians have always experienced and loved the High Sierra. Contained in this marvelous collection are transcendent nature poems, as well as prose selections from his memoir An Autobiographical Novel, newspaper columns, published and unpublished WPA guidebooks, and correspondence. Famed science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson has compiled a gift for lovers of mountains and poetry both. This volume also contains Robinson’s introduction and notes, photographs of Rexroth, a map of Rexroth’s travels, and an amazing astronomical analysis of Rexroth’s poems by the fiction writer Carter Scholz.

"Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills." -- American Poetry Review
"Rexroth seems to know what is under every stone before he looks." -- Christian Science Monitor
"Rexroth sees the eternal in an instant." -- The Nation

ISBN: 9780811219020

Dimensions: 206mm x 132mm x 18mm

Weight: 223g

96 pages