"Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human affairs"––the beautiful,
precarious balance among forces and species forms a unifying theme for
the new poems in this collection. The title, Regarding Wave,
reflects "a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the
Indo-European language: intersections of energy, woman, song and 'Gone
Beyond Wisdom.'" Central to the work is a cycle of songs for Snyder's
wife, Masa, and their first son, Kai. Probing even further than Snyder's
previous collection of poems, The Back Country, this new
volume freshly explores "the most archaic values on earth… the fertility
of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the
terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance,
the common work of the tribe…”
Regarding Wave
