Iain Sinclair visits Gary Snyder

[Joseph Tracy]

Nice piece. Just finished Practice of the Wild. I like the fact that he wrote a poem to mark the killing of whales, but he kills invasive frogs on his property. 
On Jun 1, 2012, at 12:28 PM, rich wrote:

> Sinclair loves ghosts. lots of 'em here in that Califor-ni-ay
> 
> 'The poets who survived from the San Francisco renaissance of the late
> 1950s and early 1960s branded themselves, or were branded, becoming
> identified with various philosophies or styles. Voluntary simplicity
> was never an easy pitch. ‘There are books about that,’ Snyder said,
> ‘but many people looking for the simple life didn’t do it well. They
> came out of the bourgeois background. They didn’t have the cultural
> context with which to do it. But there are places that are flourishing
> still. Like Southern Oregon. And parts of Northern California. Or
> south of Eureka on the river basin. Not everybody knows about them.’
> 
> full text available here:
> 
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n10/iain-sinclair/the-man-in-the-clearing