This collection is made up of four sections: Far West poems of the Western mountain Country where, as a young man. the backward countries, and the Back Country of the mind with its levels of being in the unconscious..
The title, The Back Country, has three major associations; wilderness.
The book concludes with a group of translations of the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933), with whose work Snyder feels a close affinity.
Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger
Far East poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto
Kali poems inspired by a visit to India and his reading of Indian religious texts, particularly those of Shivaism and Tibetan Buddhism; and Back poems done on his return to this Country in 1964 which look again at our West with the eyes of India and Japan.
This collection is made up of four sections: Far West poems of the Western mountain Country where, as a young man
