Genesis, Structure, and Meaning in Gary Snyder's ""Mountains and Rivers Without End

This reading of Gary Snyder's book-length poem from its evolution in the mid 1950s to its publication 40 years later traces the work's origins, as well as its themes and structure. It includes references to No drama; East Asian landscape painting; the rhythms of storytelling; chant and song; Jungian archetypal psychology; and world mythology.