{"id":331,"date":"2004-04-27T22:56:57","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T02:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/27\/gary-snyder-cold-mountain-poem\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T23:14:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T03:14:22","slug":"gary-snyder-cold-mountain-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/27\/gary-snyder-cold-mountain-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Snyder, &#8220;Cold Mountain Poem (#12)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>In my first thirty years of life<br \/>\nI roamed hundreds and thousands of miles.<br \/>\nWalked by rivers through deep green grass<br \/>\nEntered cities of boiling red dust.<br \/>\nTried drugs, but couldn&#8217;t make Immortal;<br \/>\nRead books and wrote poems on history.<br \/>\nToday I&#8217;m back at Cold Mountain:<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll sleep by the creek and purify my ears.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1593760159\"><I>Riprap<\/I> and <I>Cold Mountain Poems<\/I><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><A href=\"http:\/\/poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/167\">Gary Snyder<\/A> has been called one of the 20th century&#8217;s great nature poets, and is also noted for <A href=\"http:\/\/www.rooknet.com\/beatpage\/writers\/snyder.html\">his connection<\/A> to the Beats. Read &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu\/spark\/v1n1\/mttam\/mttam.htm\">The Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais<\/A>&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wenaus.com\/poetry\/snyder.html\">a slew of other poems<\/A>, and here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotellall.com\/article\/gary-snyder-an-american-poet.html\">another good starting reference<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my first thirty years of life I roamed hundreds and thousands of miles. Walked by rivers through deep green grass Entered cities of boiling red dust. Tried drugs, but couldn&#8217;t make Immortal; Read books and wrote poems on history. Today I&#8217;m back at Cold Mountain: I&#8217;ll sleep by the creek and purify my ears. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}