Two beautifully paired essays Tawny Grammar and Good Wild Sacred serve to offer an autobiographical framework for Gary Snyders long work as a poet environmentalist and a leader of the Buddhist community in North America. He begins standing outside a community hall in Portland Oregon in 1943 and concludes as a homesteader in the backcountry of Northern California more than fortyfive years later. A wonderful introduction to Gary Snyder this will also serve to remind his faithful readers of the th