RIPRAP: a cobble of stone laid on steep slick rock to make a trail for horses in the mountains

Book Description

[Ashland, MA] Origin Press 1960 Paperback Second printing. [34pp.] Octavo [21 cm] Japanese style tan and white wrappers sewn with purple thread. White paper label on front panel. Near fine. This fragile, Japanese style wrapped edition is extremely fragile and ordinarily subject to considerable wear. Signed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author on the title page in his distinctive calligraphed hand. Designed and edited by Cid Corman. This second printing was limited to 1,000 copies. Second printing of first work by one of the six legendary Beat poets at the first public reading of Allen Ginsberg's Howl at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955. Snyder's Riprap, along with Ginsberg's Howl and Jack Kerouac's On the Road are considered to be the holy triumvirate of the beat movement. Snyder went on to spend many years studying Zen Buddhism in Japan and has also become the 'Poet Laureate of Deep Ecology' as well. He is one of our finest living poets. Snyder went on to write: The Back Country, Turtle Island (Pulitzer Prize), Regarding Wave, A Place in Space and Mountains and Rivers Without End. McNeil A1b. Kheridan p.15.

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