Reviews

The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild by Paul Ebenkamp, Jim Harrison, Gary Snyder

richardwells's review against another edition

3.0

A transcribed b.s. session with two wise old codgers. Interesting, not overwhelming. Some interesting comments from Michael McClure, Joanna Kyger, and a few members of the crew. I bought it for the DVD, but I've yet to watch it.

Except for Turtle Island, I've never been a big Gary Snyder fan, and only an incidental reader of Jim Harrison. I'll probably do a cursory review of their work based on these transcriptions.

richardwells's review

3.0

A transcribed b.s. session with two wise old codgers. Interesting, not overwhelming. Some interesting comments from Michael McClure, Joanna Kyger, and a few members of the crew. I bought it for the DVD, but I've yet to watch it.

Except for Turtle Island, I've never been a big Gary Snyder fan, and only an incidental reader of Jim Harrison. I'll probably do a cursory review of their work based on these transcriptions.

mtoddweb's review against another edition

5.0

This book must be read and appreciated in tandem with the accompanying DVD, The Practice of the Wild, a documentary about poetry, practice, and wilderness. Both book and film record a conversation between two men: Gary Snyder, Buddhist, poet, essayist, activist, and Jim Harrison, poet and novelist (his novel Legends of the Fall was made into the film of the same name). Both men are elders, are creators, are human beings deeply attuned to their environs--Snyder to his Pacifist Northwest home, Harrison to the plains of the Midwest. The book consists of a film transcription, unedited conversations, outtakes from a few other people who were interviewed, photos, and Snyder's poems read in the film. If you're interested in landscape, wilderness, poetry, or just wider issues of being human, book and documentary are well worth a look.