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From Gary Snyder's Preface: "Lew Welch writes lyrical poems of clarity, humor, and dark probings. The poems brought together in this selection are the major works of a man who of his forty-five years of life in the west gave twenty-one to poetry. His work stands in the context of San Francisco poetry renaissance: the post-World War II libertarian energy of striving to further develop the possibilities of open-form poetry. The heart of the book is the "Hermit Poems" and "Way Back" sections– poems evoking, covering, the time spent in retreat and practice at a cabin in the mountains of coast north California deep up rivers, still Yurok land. in those works Lew really achieved the meeting of an ancient Asian sage-tradition, the "shack simple" post-frontier back country out-of-work workingman's style, and the rebel modernism of art. He returned to the Bay Area at the inception of the over-heavy flowering of hippie culture. It is instructive how these poems have the essence but cut through the psychedelic baroque." |
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